I have a couple of fun new paintings just listed

[Nancy Pace]

I will agree with you about the willow trees.  When I was a kid, we had several in the back acre or two and they were extremely beautiful, especially in the wind.  Your image just made my day.

John

I am glad to hear from you John! I am always happy to please someone with my painting:)

[Nancy Pace]

Kris, they are Acrylic and inks, mostly acrylics. I love working with acrylics they do dry fast and I can add layers sooner. If I want it wet longer I mist with water from a spray bottle.
I love oils too, just haven't played there in a while. I bought new paints in oils to get back to that medium, so you can expect those in a few weeks:) I have done charcoal drawing too and enjoyed that.
So many fun things to do, never enough time!

The pastels can be sealed to preserve them, probably the same spray I use on my acrylics,it is clear acrylic spray in either Matte or Satin, I change depending on the piece.

I have never had art lessons, I am self taught, but watercolors scare me so I plan to take a beginners work shop in the fall. If it works for me, I can go on alone if I get some simple basic techniques.( I may be over confident:)

[lisianblue]

hehehe watercolors are a whole different ball game than acrylics or oils!!!

Yeah, I've tried all the tricks with acrylics - but for the way I paint, they just don't work as well as oils do.  The extender is like glop! icky stuff.

My oil paintings rarely come out the same way they are started - but that's not the case when it comes to watercolors - 
I've tried the spray with the soft pastels, - and sent a 18 x 24 drawing/painting to my sister - thought I had it packed so it wouldn't get mesed up - but I had to tell her how to reblend parts of it after she got it.