3.5×2.5″, collage
Well, here’s kind of a crazy one to end the week—pieces of silk sari strips cut into shape and adhered onto the card. Add some metallic confetti for good measure. Then brush on two colors of watered-down acrylic on the white background and rub some off. That’s Friday for you!
2.5×3.5″ acrylic
A quick little Artist-Trading-Card size acrylic painting, although it never goes quite as quickly as I hope!
9.5×7.5″ acrylic, silk on matboard
Layers of scraped acrylic, brushed acrylic, and collaged silk make up this April Fool.
8×6″ acrylic on canvas board
This little canvas board came from the Mystery Build Kit I received last year and that I didn’t use in my project. It’s the perfect size for daily art!
I was going to collage some silk thread onto the painting to make the pink/magenta horizontal lines coming out, but I remembered how the thread (and fabric) tends to darken a lot when I collage with them. So, I just used paint to mimic the shape of what I hoped the thread would do.
7×9″ acrylic on matboard
New life for an old scraped painting.
digital photo, manipulated
I took some photos of some lovely soap bubbles in a pot in the kitchen sink. I figured I would zoom in and crop one of the photos on the computer and post the raw image. But…once I selected the photo I liked, I decided to try a few software filters to see if one enhanced it or ruined it. The glowing edges filter was the winner. And here is the result.
8×5″ acrylic on matboard
I had been looking at an earlier version of this on my art table for some time. Finally decided I would add something new and see what happened. This happened.
Random quote of the day (from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way):
“Art? You just do it.” —Martin Ritt
9×6″ acrylic on matboard
I bought some new paint at my local art store today, so I had to try them out (including brilliant yellow green, turner’s yellow, transparent raw sienna, and two others I didn’t use in this piece). Then I added more that I already had on hand (brilliant blue, brilliant purple, and cadmium red deep, and possibly alizarin crimson).
10×8″, acrylic
I paint so often with the scraping technique that I forget how good it feels to work with a brush—even manic brushwork (maybe especially manic brushwork)! Anyway, this was a nice change of pace.
10×8″ acrylic on matboard
I didn’t have much time to spend on this scraped, pressed, textured renovated painting today. It’s a dreary day for picture-taking, and the textured parts are difficult to see. Hoping for more art time tomorrow!