It's #ShowOffSaturday over at one of my favorite Facebook groups, The Artist Entrepreneur hosted by the lovely Catherine Orer, Coach Extraordinaire.
Again this week I am sharing one of my paintings from my October series where I am celebrating autumn with abstracts - this is abstract 10.3 (yes, I skipped one, I am still struggling with 10.2).
You can see my process in the photos below -
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Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 |
(1) I started with a 20" x 20" canvas where I had applied a base of black gesso. I then sketched an abstract design with chalk. (2) Working with my chosen color palette of autumn hues I worked out a plan. (3) I began building my layers with stamped images and collaged sewing pattern tissue and torn pieces of newspaper.
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(4) Filling in base color. I used several products to build layers of color - acrylic paint, markers, gelatos and Neo-Color II crayons.
My most used tools on this painting - Acrylic glaze (used to add transparency to paints) and a scrubby paint brush (older brush that I cut down)
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Steps 5 Step 6 Closeup |
(5) I created a few flower outlines with my chalk. (6) Using my scrubby brush and acrylic paints mixed with the acrylic glaze I filled in the petals of the flowers, still allowing the bottom layers to come through.
After many, many hours of adding layers I have landed here.
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20 x 20 Mixed Media on Canvas
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Here are a few close ups (I love close ups, it's where you get to see all the yumminess!)
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But I'm not sure it's finished. I may keep adding to it - after all, you can NEVER have too many layers.
Shhhh - if you've read this far, thank you! Your reward? Leave a comment below and be entered to win a set of note cards with close up images taken from this painting.Winner selected on October 21, 2016.