Golden Workshop

This past Saturday I attended a free workshop at Daniel Smith on Golden products taught by artist, Barbara De Pirro. I had never been to a workshop at Daniel Smith before and I was pleasantly surprised by all the goodies we got. Not only that, but I had a bit of luck that day too. Barbara De Pirro had a drawing at the end for some Golden Products and I won! I never win anything. Especially when I was in Vegas last week. But I guess I had to return to Seattle to have Lady Luck smile on me. I picked out a set of 6 of the GACs. woohoo! Can’t wait to experiment with those.

We got so much information during the workshop that I’m hoping that I absorbed enough of it. I am still a lover of oils, but the more and more I learn about acrylics the more fascinated I am by all the different applications one can use. I have a lot of ideas to try out. I am thinking of sharing some of my explorations here on my blog. Stay tuned! I’ve been exploring Golden paints and products on my own for a few years now with my mixed media panels that I bind into journals…but it’s always interesting to see a tweaking of a technique. Most of the time I just fly by figuring things out as I go, which is great. But it’s nice at times to see that what I’m doing is actually a proven technique.

Something useful I found out was that Golden has a quarterly newsletter that you can sign up for to receive either my email or snail mail. They also have a blog.

I bought some Fine Pumice Gel that I can’t wait to try out. I loved the effect that I saw in some of her samples. It kind of looked like encaustics. hmmm……