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Great idea with the gold, Sheila! Cool textures!
My 1st try I binned!
My 2nd try is a quick sponge technique
My 3rd try was a pour with a real super large earring and rings using a lid from a bottle
Christel
Good job tuscanny – the first sponge background is just lovely, love the figures and that theme works a treat. Your abstract is good too. I see you had fun. Well done with both.
I did the cling wrap for the grapes and waterlily one. I think the waterlily looks awful, but hey, that melting line was something I tried from a youtube tutorial, and hers looked great… Mine looks like an ice cream.
Grapes is 200 x 200 mm on board. &
Waterlilly is from tuscanny’s floral this month, although I have chosen and completed another picture entirely for tuscanny’s challenge. ( not the same pic)
Canvas 300 x 300 mm
I had a devil of a job either getting focus or light. They look dark, the clouds came over the sun.
Painting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill
Lol Sheila – no apologies needed just nice to have you join in and share your enthusiasm!:)
Christel – absolutely love that first one with the sponge – the illusion of strong light on heavy rough texture! The dancers are a super addition!
#2 looks as if you’ve had real fun playing around! Thanks for both! (well, 3, but one in the bin!!!:()Merri – I like everything about the grapes pic! The composition worked out beautifully and, whether by accident or design, the whole reminds me of Gauguin’s work – the colour I think!
What did you use for the melting ice cream lines?:lol: – I like them actually and have seen this type of work before – used it – making the white lines with white acrylic inks – gives a cloisonné effect, as yours does.
Thanks for playing:) …….. oh! just read your last post and see the link – thank you!:)Cheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .Here’s my play!
About 9″ square(ish) mountboard – the back of any earlier DS piece!Tissue paper and glue then acrylic inks ……… maybe should have added glitter and gold!!!;);):lol:
Pumpkins, from a reference by Dewi in a WDE a couple of weeks ago.
Cheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .Maureen, that is good playing. Love the pumpkins. I did not know about tissue paper… or I would have given it a shot.
I especially like your colours..I am really pleased that this challenge actually made me go looking for ‘other ways’ to do things. I especially like this cling flim thing with inks. I really like the tuscanny sponge effect too. This challenge was fun, and my mould one using lace doiles is my bin one. Um, don’t know about that, but I am glad that I know that I don’t like it.
All good fun.
Back to serious work now…
Cheers
MerriPainting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill
Sheila, I bet that’s really cool to see in real life.
Christel, the sponge effect is really nice and looks like you had fun with the other one.
Merri, two very nice paintings. Love the colours in the grape painting, and the ice cream lines in the other are a nice effect.
Maureen, very nice use of texture on those pumpkins.
I’ll try to get mine ready for posting tomorrow.
C&C always welcome. Michelle
mkmcreations.com
Every painting is a new adventure.Merri, I’ve always loved using clingfilm and when I discovered the acrylic inks in 2005 it allowed me to use it with this medium …. a fellow member here used it with regular Acrylics to good effect, but it never worked for me!:(
Thanks for the comments on mine.
Cheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .Sorry if I confused you Sheila – as long as the majority of the work is acrylics, use of additional stuff is ok – apologies to anyone else not entirely clear about the challenge – should have expressed myself better …….. in defence, I was filling a hole as we didn’t have a host – so it was rushed!!!!!!!!:angel:
Cheers, Maureen
Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .Merri, I’ve always loved using clingfilm and when I discovered the acrylic inks in 2005 it allowed me to use it with this medium …. a fellow member here used it with regular Acrylics to good effect, but it never worked for me!:(
Thanks for the comments on mine.
Maureen, I had never done it… as you know, I have not used acrylic for any length of time, a year now I guess… so I have a bash at the challenges for practice.
This cling film thing, it worked on the board which I had gessoed, but because it is still cold at night, I had to leave it quite some time to dry.
( not the 2 hrs like the chick in the video – she is in the north and has sunny hottish weather mainly)
so I noticed that if it really did dry, and the cling was sort of stuck a bit then it worked. If it wasn’t quite dry, then it all came off and made mud.
I don’t think it would have worked without a good generous multi layers of gesso to start with. But the dry part was the cruicial part.The background on the canvas one was also done with cling film to start.. but I found it took forever to dry, and I had made mud at one point and had to redo it all.
Not least – that I spilt an entire bottle of yellow ink over it… grrr…
by mistake. Re the ice cream thing, I really just had a guess… I used regular tube white with lotsa flow retarder and water and stirred it all, stuck it in a plastic bag and made a hole and squeezed it out. I think my hole was a bit big. Never mind.
cheers
MerriPainting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill
I did some texture tests but I didn’t understand that there was something representative about it…
test 1 and 2 lay wood glue on support here glazed cardboard and without waiting for it dry to put acrylic colors it cracks drying
test 3 apply acrylic and spray wet china ink plus alcohol 96 degrees on china ink
test 4 acrylic ceruleum dry on liquid green blue and before drying pulverize alcohol 96 degrees dry and then lay other light green layer plus alcohol on toptest 5 stick crushed egg shells to wood glue and lay acrylic on top when it’s dry
Test 6: with glue to wood stick coffee grounds and lay colors once dry
Test 7: draw tree trunks wet the surface to paint with white vinegar diluted with water 50/50 until impregnating the shapes to paint here the trunks injected in places earth of his burnt and ink of china and dry
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