I Have Started Working With Casein Paint Lately, And I Have To Say That It Is The Best Thing Ever. It

I have started working with casein paint lately, and I have to say that it is the Best Thing Ever. It behaves like watercolors if watercolors behaved like oil paint, if that makes sense. It stays workable, is water soluble, and I think it smells nice, especially compared to some paints.

It’s also totally matte when it dries, can be taken completely back up off your painting surface, eventually cures and becomes water resistant, and I can draw on it once it’s dry.

Subsequently, paint is happening. Paint is happening now.

Starting on a new woodcut print. This is a much larger version of my Noon-Day Witch sketch from last fall. Final will be printed 18x24".

And a close-up of the witch herself. A lot of this is going to have a pretty different line quality once it’s actually cut, but this gives me a starting point.

More things have appeared on the walls.

Brief update: the artist in residence is letting me use half of her studio, so I have a place to work now. Sweet blessed work space.

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