...on candy-striped legs?Hmmm... Progress was made, but I didn't really have time to post this week. I guess you'll just have to be patient.
Posted at 3:17 AM on Friday, March 31, 2006
So over on the right is the complete background for this painting. It was a longer process than most things I've done recently. A turning point? Perhaps.
I've mentioned that I'd been thinking of combining the style of painting I gave up prior to the start of my stenciling phase WITH stenciling. Well here's the start of that I guess. True, the Victorian deco element isn't a stencil in the truest sense, but it's pretty closely related to that way of working.
So onto how it got to it's finished state...
After I finished painting in the black deco element, I enlarged the deco drawing a second time via the overhead projector, traced it and painted it in with white acrylic. Well that turned out to be much too bright. So I used washes of pthalo blue and black to push it back from the surface. I still wasn't happy about where it sat in terms of the depth of the picture plane, so I painted in the black deco pattern back again over the white. And there it was- done.
So over on the right is the complete background for this painting. It was a longer process than most things I've done recently. A turning point? Perhaps.I've mentioned that I'd been thinking of combining the style of painting I gave up prior to the start of my stenciling phase WITH stenciling. Well here's the start of that I guess. True, the Victorian deco element isn't a stencil in the truest sense, but it's pretty closely related to that way of working.
So onto how it got to it's finished state...
After I finished painting in the black deco element, I enlarged the deco drawing a second time via the overhead projector, traced it and painted it in with white acrylic. Well that turned out to be much too bright. So I used washes of pthalo blue and black to push it back from the surface. I still wasn't happy about where it sat in terms of the depth of the picture plane, so I painted in the black deco pattern back again over the white. And there it was- done.
Posted at 6:57 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2006
More steps...
1. I mixed some white house paint with water and acrylic medium and added some white-washy stripes. After that I put in the black negative fills between the stripes.
2. I then applied a wash of crimson over the white (up top) to knock it down a bit. Heavier more intense crimson was layered over the black areas.
3. Lots of textures being built up: close up #1 / close up #2.
4. The next step was to draw a template for a Victorian deco pattern (seen at right). I used a fine-point Sharpie and drew onto a piece of clear packing tape. I then took this and used an overhead projector to enlarge the image. I then traced the projection onto the painting.
5. The traced deco pattern was painted over with black acrylic.
more to come...
More steps...1. I mixed some white house paint with water and acrylic medium and added some white-washy stripes. After that I put in the black negative fills between the stripes.
2. I then applied a wash of crimson over the white (up top) to knock it down a bit. Heavier more intense crimson was layered over the black areas.
3. Lots of textures being built up: close up #1 / close up #2.
4. The next step was to draw a template for a Victorian deco pattern (seen at right). I used a fine-point Sharpie and drew onto a piece of clear packing tape. I then took this and used an overhead projector to enlarge the image. I then traced the projection onto the painting.
5. The traced deco pattern was painted over with black acrylic.
more to come...
Posted at 9:45 PM on Friday, March 17, 2006
Just a brief update...
-Pthalo blue / black acrylic washes applied over the top of the first state.
-There's some spattering and wet-into-wet technique going on.
Just a brief update... -Pthalo blue / black acrylic washes applied over the top of the first state.
-There's some spattering and wet-into-wet technique going on.
Posted at 6:40 PM on Friday, March 10, 2006
I'm working on building up a background for a painting... over on the right is the first state. There's alot of layering to be done still, but there's the record of the first hour. A mixture of acrylic and white house paint done on 300lb. cold press water color paper.
I used one of my favorite tools on this one: a wine cork.
I'm working on building up a background for a painting... over on the right is the first state. There's alot of layering to be done still, but there's the record of the first hour. A mixture of acrylic and white house paint done on 300lb. cold press water color paper. I used one of my favorite tools on this one: a wine cork.
