In my second class my ‘scribble’ painting had taken off in the wrong direction.
My original plan was to feature a larger scribbled swoop on top of the scribble image transfers, as well as having curled black and white ribbons coming off the surface. Somehow this plan had gone by the wayside. Instead I had added tacky fish transfers and now they had to go!
The first step was to gesso over my fish transfers and add a blue glaze back onto the gessoed section. I still had no idea of what to do with it so I took a photo of the newly gessoed painting and put it into Photoshop.
There I added some big swirls but none of them looked quite right with the centred design. One thing I had liked on the painting earlier was the look of the pale bluish drips of the medium before it dried. So I thought maybe I could add some interesting ‘drips’ to the painting? In Photoshop I layered a photo of some ‘drippy’ graffiti over the painting. This was much better, but not something possible to duplicate via paint.
I did some more experimentation in Photoshop with the same drippy graffiti shot.
Looking at these images, I thought that I will add a second panel to this and try for a two panel painting.
And as I seem to have hit a block on all four paintings that I’m working on maybe I will try to ‘photoshop’ them all…
Our super instructor’s site: http://jeannekrabbendam.com/ On her site she has her work and offers lots of different workshops and courses.
Mixed Media Class Experience:
- My first mixed media class – selecting images suitable for transfer
- I am frantically wondering, “Where’s the undo button?”
- Mistakes and more mistakes (using my scribbles painting as an example)
- How to do an image transfer, method # 1
- How to do an image transfer, method # 2
- Working with image transfers two years later
Batz Gallery 
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