June 21, 2011. Our last assignment is to do something on transformation, and I figured that this piece fits the bill. After all it started as what was supposed to be a wood grain and staples piece that went astray … Continue reading A Disaster Transformed into a Weed Painting
Examples of ‘fragile’ papers include tissue, rice paper and toilet paper/kleenex. Tissue Paper Relatively delicate papers tear easily when soaked in acrylic medium. To prevent this, a thicker acrylic gel is applied to the surface of the painting, the delicate tissue paper … Continue reading Adding More Texture to Mixed-Media Paintings with Tissue and Other ‘Fragile’ Papers
Our third class in Mixed-Media Painting was about more ways to add texture in your mixed-media paintings via papers, foil, fabrics, organic materials, non-organic materials and tar gel. This covered a huge amount of ground – many years later and … Continue reading Mixed Media Class 3: More Additions for your Paintings
THE COVER-UP My original idea for this painting was to somehow produce a piece of art that took on the characteristics of multiple posters stapled onto a wooden surface. But the image I had wanted to transfer (below) didn’t work, … Continue reading Mixed Media Struggle 3: Gesso is my New Undo Button
My Indian Holyman Painting: Dispelling Fear and Offering Benediction. June 13, 2011. I haven’t painted for 11 years and now it’s hard to get it going again! Everything that I have been doing in my painting class is centered and … Continue reading Mixed Media Struggle 2: How Do I Stop Centering Everything?
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 … Continue reading Mixed Media Struggle 1: Using Photoshop to Second Guess Myself on a Problem Painting
Most of our second mixed media class was about creating textures with spackling, with the remainder being about glazing and then dry-brushing over the plaster/spackling textures. Here is the glazing process: First apply acrylic medium over the plaster/spackling texture and let dry. … Continue reading Glazing Over the Spackling Texture on your Mixed-Media Painting
A blur of golden jaguar in the jungles of Costa Rica. The first assignment from my Mixed Media Painting classes was to do a painting inspired by the phrase, “And all I could do was remember…“ The story. We were … Continue reading Mixed media painting first assignment: ‘And all I could do was remember’
June 9, 2011: The next demo in my mixed-media class was to create even more texture to the spackling mix with the addition of sand, pebbles, grit or other similar things. The trick is to mix the plaster, acrylic medium … Continue reading Additions to Spackling to Add Even More Texture to Your Painting
Basic Acrylic/Spackle Mix and Pressed Textures. Our second Mixed-Media Class was all about using spackle to add texture to your paintings. Jeanne gave us some hints about using texture: in a realistic image the texture should go closer to the … Continue reading Pressing Objects into Spackle to Add Texture to Your Paintings
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