Making a Tricorn Hat from a Floppy Beach Hat

Making a Tricorn Hat from a Floppy Beach Hat

Well, long story short, I knew I was going to be a pirate for Halloween by Christmas of last year. Why? Because of that red dress that you can see in the thumbnail above. I ordered it on Amazon despite mixed reviews and it was nothing like I pictured. I was looking...
An Homage to the Haunted Mansion: A New Technique in Acrylic Painting

An Homage to the Haunted Mansion: A New Technique in Acrylic Painting

Anybody else feel like they’re walking a tightrope above gator-infested waters? Yes, it feels like that a lot of the time recently. That’s what made me think of this stretching portrait from the Haunted Mansion. It also provided the perfect opportunity to try a new acrylic painting technique that uses Stabilo pencils to provide a pencil sketch base for the rest of the painting.