Andrea Doughtie, Rural Painter

I’ve been working forever on a tiny painting in casein–my new enthusiasm– a milk-based paint and very forgiving.  It’s a fairly tedious technique using a lot of cross hatching to get smooth coverage.  The beauty is, if you don’t like it, you can wipe it off, even days later, unlike acrylic or oil.  Eventually it hardens and after that it’s there forever.  It’s an old old medium.  This painting was much harder than others.  The little plastic figures I used for models are so small it’s hard to measure distances.  But I think I finally got it right.  Whimsy is one of my favorite things; I guess I haven’t outgrown toys.

Anachronism    casein on birch panel   9 x 12   $400 unframed but ready to hang