The Artwork of Stephanie Spangler

Santa has come and gone this Christmas but he left quite a generous haul! Among the goodies I got was a set of brushes, a set of gouache paints, some watercolor paper, fluid acrylic paints, pouring medium and Yupo paper. I've tried a couple of pour paintings with regular acrylics before, and while the end products turned out OK, I knew I would have had better results with the proper materials. So I am definitely looking forward to trying again with the right kind of paints

Well, here we are at the end of the challenge and while I enjoyed it... I am glad it's come to a close. Some days it's been flat out exhausting trying to get a day's challenge done, but it was fun stretching myself and trying new things. Today's challenge did exactly that. I tried a new technique which was a form of flow painting that involved blowing the paint across the canvas with a straw. I mixed acrylic paint with water, to make it easier to spread, and dropped one co

So today's challenge was 'green'... obviously! What else would you do for St. Patrick's Day?! Anyway, I was kind of stuck for a while on what to draw or paint until I remembered seeing a lot of videos on YouTube about drip paintings. I'd never done one before and was going to hold off trying it until the last challenge, but then I figured, why not give it a shot now? After watching a couple of videos on different techniques one can try, I began to be a little apprehensive