Stolen from the Kitchen

A couple of months ago I shared the sculptor Mark Castator's other use for his iron wok: he uses it to create the round forms of his circular Moons of Jupiter pieces. My Artist X for August also steals from the place where she cooks. A lot of her technique lies in her layering of paint and, in some cases, subsequent scraping. Art supply stores sell spatula-like tools for this purpose, but as she knows, the same rubber that we use to scrape chocolate chunk cookies does an awesome job of scraping oil paints. Here is a shot of her supply:

Here is a close-up of the effect of the use of these tools: