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Leah Fanning Mebane's Earth Art
http://fanningart.blogspot.com/
Leah Fanning Mebane explores non-toxic, environmental and sustainable fine art painting and shares her process and abstract art.
- Added on: Jun 24th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Mini-Earth Art at Bohemia Gallery
Come see a sneak preview of some small earth pigment paintings at Bohemia Gallery in Ashland!It's the annual mini-art show and will be up throughout December and January. Where: Bohemia Gallery: 552 A St. Ashland, ORAll of my pieces were created with...
Making Egg Tempera Paint is so easy
Tempera painting actually came before oil painting as the most favored medium and is very unique in its characteristics. It produces a crisp, luminous and almost linear effect that's different from oil. Using egg yolk as the binder, this ancient tech...
How to collect & prepare non-toxic earth paints
I just drove from Jacksonville, OR to the Redwoods in Northern CA and found many beautiful oranges, reds and deep yellows along the side of the road. Good locations to find pigments are road cuts, quarries (which often reveal strata of several differ...
Earth pigments & new discoveries
Now, that we've talked about how easy it is to eliminate toxic solvents and toxic pigments from your oil painting process (see earlier posts), it's time to move deeper into making our own earth based paints. When I first started this project, I state...
Last drawing of the month!
I've really had a wonderful time with this self-imposed drawing project. My "coloring sessions" each morning always got my creative juices flowing and brought on a peaceful calm and a childlike joyful focus. For some reason I'm reminded of my last da...
oil pastel #30
"source" 10" x 10" $25 ($35 matted)...
