Tabby cat and tuxedo cat, Tabby and Valentine invite you on a tour of Ryn Shell's studio and garden. Ryn is painting a rosebud with Caran D'Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils in the studio. Then, we step outside the studio doors into the garden where Ryn will demonstrate (attempt to demonstrate as it is a moving model) painting a magpie using Schmincke extra-soft pastels on watercolour paper. Ryn uses both wet, painterly technique and dry watercolour as she captures this moving bird model with the out of focus backdrop of the flowering tree dahlia into artwork. 
Magpie, Tree Dahlia & Rosebud - Soft Pastels & Watercolour Pencil Demo
HOW TO MAKE CHALK PAINT
There are several different ways to make chalk paint. The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) process involves two simple steps that require light mixing, pouring, and stirring of several ingredients. Follow the instructions below to make your own chalk paint: Mix the Plaster of Paris, baking soda, or unsanded grout and water together enough to remove all the lumps. Pour the baking soda or unsanded grout mixture into the paint.Stir until all of the mixture is dissolved and there are no lumps. Make sure paint is as smooth as it was when you started. The paint appears at first no different than the latex paint you started with. When the chalk paint dries on the furniture, you will notice the distressed look. For a quart of paint, quadruple the amount, but remember that it dries (and dries out) quickly. Make this paint in small batches as it can dry fast. CHALK PAINT RECIPES Here are four of the most popular chalk paint recipes: Calcium Carbonate, Plaster of Paris, Baking soda, and unsanded grout. There are only three ingredients for each recipe and using the quantities specified below will allow you to make just over a cup of paint each. Another popular formulae for a larger quantity is 1 cut of the dry powder added to enough water to create a pancake mix consistency, and add that to three cups of acrylic latex paint. CALCIUM CORBONATE CHALK PAINT RECIPE 1 cup latex paint 1-1/2 tablespoons water 2-½ calcium carbonate PLASTER OF PARIS CHALK PAINT RECIPE 1 cup latex paint 1-1/2 tablespoons water 2-1/2 tablespoons Plaster of Paris BAKING SODA CHALK PAINT RECIPE 1 cup latex paint 3 tablespoons cool water 1/2 cup baking soda UNSANDED GROUT CHALK PAINT RECIPE 1 cup latex paint 1 tablespoon cool water 2 tablespoons unsanded grout Don't attempt to work with chalk paint in hot conditions as it will dry out too rapidly. The grout and the plaster of Paris mixes will dry the fastest, and if you are seeking a shabby chic cracked paint effect, carefully playing with ingredients of the underpainting and top coat and I can create good crackle effects.
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Open Mystery
Ruth Randall's novel "A Judgement in Stone," opens with this line.
"Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write." In open mystery novel, the reader knows who the murderer is, from the beginning; the mystery is why, and how, they did it, and if they will be caught. In The Stolen Years series of novels, the reader has a view of who commits many of the crimes. There is plenty of suspense while no one else suspects who the murderer is. The Stolen Years Series
From an Australian bestselling author comes mystery thriller of determination to find one's place in a world that men are threatening to tear apart.
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