Top Coats

We learned how to mount canvas paintings onto wood panels and then finish the projects with top coats.  Soft gel matte, self-leveling clear gel, GAC 100, fluid matte medium, soft gel gloss are all choices.  I used GAC 100.  I love the finished look.

Which you won't get to see here!

Almost simultaneous with the end of TSA I'm out of storage space on this blog for pictures.  May be a good spot to end this blog and start fresh?

Raw canvas

This week turned out to be an experiment in abstraction for most of us.  I really liked the results.



Encaustic

May as well back track a bit through the last couple acrylics classes.

Using the same composition as before we learned to make acrylic paint look like encaustic which is usually done with heated oil paint and wax.  Instead we used regular gel matte mixed with the paint to simulate the encaustic look.



The Toronto School of Art

... is bankrupt!

Here's me, three and a half academic years in and just half way through my credits.  I'll never get my Diploma in Fine Arts.  I do hope to get my money back for the no-longer-upcoming Winter term.

But all that is beside the point which is the loss of community.  So many people.  The loss of such excellent teaching.  My progress has been exponential this year.  I was never looking forward so eagerly to the term ahead.

We had our final critique in Fundamental Acrylics on the Tuesday.  We'd picked out our pieces for the Fall term Open House.  Then on Friday November 30, the doors were locked and that was that.

Shock.

There is now a Facebook group and talk of Phoenix from the ashes in some form or other.  I hope this happens -- I want to study further with those great teachers and students.