This is something I've been wanting to try for awhile — my ink & watercolor technique, but on canvas with acrylics. I grabbed a reject painting, gessoed over it and gave it a go.
The good news is I now know I can put ink over acrylic without any problems. The bad news is the painting is pretty blah – not what I was envisioning in my head at all. It's the layout and the colors and the fact that I have to work backwards in a way.
Tom thinks it's cool. He says in 50 years someone will be all excited and want to see the Blados under this Sunflower. They'll be disappointed. It's George Harrison and it's one of the varnish accidents from my Rock Icon show last year.
Hey, that reminds me. I think I have 10 more canvases downstairs ... more experimenting to follow.
I love the sunflower. I like the starkness of it. I know about Klutz !! Once chopping onions for baked beans. almost cut off the end of my little finger. Wrapped it up got the beans in the oven, THEN drove myself to the ER for 6 stitches !!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it seems plain to you because you are used to drawing objects with shadows most of the time? But this flower is upright and looks great. If you're using acrylics you can just paint over something if you want to change the color, can't you? I'm not all that familiar with them, but I thought you could go back and even change the whole sky to blue if you wanted to, right? Glad to know you can combine ink and acrylics. You will do great things with it! :)
ReplyDeleteMarthann -- I'm trying not to laugh, but that totally sounds like something I'd do. Although my accidents tend to be over artworks more than cooking, so I'm usually saying don't bleed on the art in my head.
ReplyDeleteRita -- thanks! I was disappointed ... it didn't match what was in my head. But I also didn't have much of a plan, just went at it, so next time I'll maybe spend 20 seconds thinking before I slosh on the paint. ;-)