Category: art

6×6″ acrylic on paper

Some free brushwork turned into abstracted mysterious figures of sorts. As with dreams, the interpretations could be pretty interesting.

4×4″ acrylic on paper

This is just a little daily, starting with a scrape of leftover mostly magenta paint, then adding lavender and purple and cutting into the wet paint with a soft tool, and some brushwork of a couple of colors (cerulean blue and magenta) around the edges. One last scrape of magenta down the middle diagonally finished it off.

6×6″ acrylic, ink on paper

Scraped and brushed and edged acrylic paint, plus marker squiggles. This one began to get a little lost, but it has a feeling of place to me—of home. And it’s the daily for today.

4×4″ acrylic on paper

This began with the side-of-the-palette-knife lines of lavender paint. After those were dry, I scraped some transparent yellow-orange and zinc white acrylic, but waded into the wet paint with a soft tool to make more “scratch” marks in the top paint layer. I didn’t want to muddy it up too much (like I sometimes do), so I decided against adding additional colors for a more subtle look instead.

6×6″ acrylic on paper

This began with some leftover paint scrapes, then a lot of brushwork, some block-printing with acrylic, and finally some palette knife applications. It’s a little mysterious.

7×5.5″ acrylic, ink on matboard

The scraped transparent green gold acrylic transformed the color in this painting. There is one noticeable spot where the original colors (ultramarine blue & magenta) pop out. I added some parallel lines at the bottom, just because.

6.5×10.5″ acrylic on matboard

This began as a clean scrape, but a little too dull. I scraped another layer of transparent paint over it, but it was still too plain. I made some straight marks with the scraping tool in some areas, then did some similar work with the side of a palette knife at the top and throughout the piece. And here it is.

7×10″ acrylic on matboard

This is a scraped acrylic painting in layers and with some dabs of zinc white along the bottom, obscuring some of the color.

7.5×9.5″ acrylic on matboard

This combines scraped acrylic, with some palette knife and brush work. It began as a vertical painting, but I saw a human figure on the leading edge of the horizontal image, so I went with that and added more to it.

9.5×7″ acrylic on matboard

A day early this week! This is a scraped acrylic painting. In lots of layers. That’s all.