I did a bit of painting today, using Liquitex Heavy Body onto a canvas board and I had little bits of paint left over. It’s very good paint, I didn’t want to waste it so I scraped it onto a small stretched canvas with a palette knife. Instant abstraction. It looks a bit spidery toContinue reading “Scrapings!”
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Sometimes You Gotta Play…
I carried on playing with the coloured papers from the other day, zooming in on sections and enlarging them to see what they looked like. I don’t know if it will lead to anything, but sometimes you’ve got to just chill out and play a bit in order to develop. I used Liquitex Heavy BodyContinue reading “Sometimes You Gotta Play…”
Playing With Paint And Paper
I played around with some paint (Liquitex Heavy Body) and offcuts of paper (Bockingford 280gsm) and a palette knife, scraping the paint over the surface to make the most of the texture. I ripped the offcuts up and arranged them onto backing paper, to see what happened, then took photos of the compositions that IContinue reading “Playing With Paint And Paper”
Jelly Houses.
I did lots of Gelli Plate prints today, using a house motif. I cut house shapes in light card and used them as stencils. I used Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paints. They’re for a specific project…more on that to come…
Remembering.
Yesterday I posted about some painting I did a few years back, experimenting with acrylic paint on heavy paper. Here’s another segment of the painting. I started with translucent washes of acrylic paint, then I drew onto that base, but I can’t remember what I used to do the drawing. I’ll have to dig itContinue reading “Remembering.”
Paint Overlays.
I was experimenting with acrylic paints onto stretched paper, laying down some base colours with brushes then, when they’re dry, overlaying a coat of white acrylic and working into it with a cotton bud (Q-Tip) while it’s still wet. It gives a really interesting 3D effect.
A year ago, Husb and I took a short break in North Wales, near Eryri (Snowdon). It poured down! But I did some expressionistic drawings with soft pastels into my Daler Rowney black paper sketchbook, you can see one in the background (above). Click here to see a short film about it. I worked veryContinue reading
Let’s Get Ready To Roller…..
I’m rollering grey paint (Liquitex) onto black canvas (The Works) with a sponge roller. I’m trying to be as bold with my painting as I was recently with my drawings during my residency in Germany. Let’s see where this goes…
Getting Ready…
Getting ready to try a new approach to painting. I bought some square black canvasses, quite cheap in The Works, and I’m going to have a go at rollering Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint directly onto them with a sponge roller. I have a plan. Let’s see how (if) it works out.
I rooted around in the garden for a selection of leaves for my recent adult education session on Gelli plate printing. The delicate leaves at the top are from a dwarf lilac, Flowerfesta Pink, that is still growing new leaves in mid-September. The ones at the bottom from the hardy evergreen ivy. Although sceptical aboutContinue reading
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