What's Your Preference?
about personal preferences and choosing to paint on paper instead of wood
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Robyn Martins
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Clean As A Whistle
About creating clean white edges on paintings
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Robyn Martins
- May 11
- 2 min
An entire can of potential—
The joy of opening a new can of Gamblin cold wax
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Robyn Martins
- Apr 1
- 1 min
Art to Watch
I don't know if you know this, but you can carry art around with you on your watch all day long. Here's how....
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Robyn Martins
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Duplicating My Favorites
Printing favorite paintings in various forms—cards and prints at lower prices.
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Robyn Martins
- Feb 15
- 2 min
There Is Poetry in Nature
I fancy myself a poet. Several years ago, I asked one of my daughters, "How does one become a poet?" And she replied in her succinct way,...
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Robyn Martins
- Feb 11
- 1 min
Go With the Accidents
I keep a folder on my desktop for outtakes, photos I have taken by accident because my thumb bumped the "button" on my iPhone.
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Robyn Martins
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Waste not...
During painting sessions, I often find I have left-over paint. I have either gotten bored with the color or used as much as I need or...
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Robyn Martins
- Jun 17, 2019
- 2 min
Filling the Gaps
Filling in the gaps with miniature oil paintings.
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Robyn Martins
- Apr 16, 2019
- 2 min
Mixing a New Favorite Color
I hear tell there are artists who have every available color at their disposal, ready to add to the palette as their imagination wishes....
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Robyn Martins
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
What's that I Hear?
When you're working in your studio or office or around the house, what is it you hear in the background? What I mean is what do you...
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Robyn Martins
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
Letting the Other Side Do the Work
I am one of those people who takes a personality test assuming I'll emerge as a confirmed arty type with a free-flowing thought process...
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Robyn Martins
- Mar 6, 2019
- 2 min
Use Every Scrap of Everything
One of the properties of cold wax added to oil paints that appeals to me is the ability to add texture. There is the mark making, of...
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