3.5×2.5″ acrylic with blockprinting
This is another little Artist Trading Card. I used acrylic with an existing print block, an ink brayer, and a brush to create this. I thought the blockprint might stand out a little more, but at least in person, it’s rather subtle. I also resisted the always lurking impulse to add other colors and layers. This one is done for today.
6×6″ acrylic block prints
This week is flying by, so today I took some time to play with four existing print blocks using acrylic paint.
3.5×2.5″ acrylic, marker
This is a delicate little scrape on a smooth Artist Trading Card, with gel marker lines drawn over the paint. The marker didn’t mark consistently over the different paint colors, and I kind of like the broken lines that resulted.
4×4″ acrylic
A little scrape over-painted with other acrylics, including making lines with the edge of the palette knife and the scraping the lines down. At first it reminded me of an octopus, but looking at it on the computer I saw more of a ghost (costume-y version), so instead of “octo-descent” it became “ghostly descent.”
4×4″ acrylic
This was a little scraped painting, but I brushed transparent (mostly) acrylic colors over the original paint. It’s “flag day” today. I’m not sure why that came to me as a title for this painting, but it did and it stuck.
6×6″ acrylic, marker
Getting started is sometimes a struggle. Not just “finding” the time to paint, but getting over the “I have to have an idea” thing before beginning to move paint around. So, I just started painting different colors with a vague idea of placing them randomly, and it seemed almost immediately to fall into somewhat of a grid. I thought of painting in the in-between areas (and eventually added some marker dots around the yellowish blobs), but ultimately decided I liked the white and couldn’t decide any other color that I thought I would like better.
10×8″ acrylic, marker on paper
This scraped painting might more accurately be called a smeared painting. After the initial smear around in a rectangular motion, I added more paint with brushwork, and then added embellishments with a variety of marker colors. This was completed on more than one day (in small doses), fit in around other duties and tasks!
4×4″ acrylic, collage
This started with a scrape of acrylic, then I brushed acrylic all around the edges, then adhered a couple of strips of a cut-up old painting on top. And that is that. Just under the wire.
2.5×3.5″ acrylic on Bristol Artist Trading Card
A quick scrape of color on a small card finishes the dailies for this week. A little pretty for your Friday.
10.5×8″ collage, marker
I took some cut-out pieces of an old painting or two (I cut them up long ago), and arranged (and adhered) them on a piece of matboard fairly randomly. An image or two emerged as I added lines of paint and marker here and there. I know what I see. What do you see?