Sunday, December 6, 2009

Wilkweed ~ "Blowin' in the Wind" Version 4

I have a short workday on Wednesdays, so last Wednesday afternoon I got the sudden urge to work on another Milkweed painting! I tried to take into considerations suggestions that I received here on my blog and on some art forums I belong to.
This one is quite a bit darker, and I tried to incorporate a lot of texture. I wasn't as successful with the Epsom salts this time, and had to get out the handy-dandy Proxa-brush to lightly scrub back to white for some of the seed fluff.
I finished this up yesterday morning. I happy with a lot of this: My experiment with granulating medium and India ink worked fairly well and gave a lot of interesting texture particularly in the bottom part. I also gave the whole painting a light spattering of iridescent gold acrylic paint which is easier to see in real life.

I think I could have done a bit better at composition, that's something that seems to get away from me sometimes!



Here is a closeup of some of the texture:



I think I've got a few more of these in me, so stay tuned!

8 comments:

  1. Oooh, Patty! I love this series. This one is a real winner--the texture is wonderful. I'm off to see if it's on CWF...

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  2. Yep, it is, and thanks for looking and your nice comment! I think they're will be more!

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  3. Yes! It has that "je ne sais quoi" feel to it. Just enough realism, just enough looseness - conveying the temporal reality of the subject. Now you see it, now you don't ... gone with the wind.

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  4. Dorice, can you write all the captions for my paintings? You're a great writer!
    Thanks so much for your poetic comment.

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  5. Nice and loose. Lovely textures and colours. Looking forward to seeing more.

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  6. I'm very late to the party but I think all of your attempts at portraying milkweed pods are a success. This would make a nice little series. I'm not crazy about using opaque anything with transparent water but in some cases it just works. I love everyone of these!

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  7. Thanks Rajeev! I hope to get back to doing more of these as well.

    Billie, thanks! As I said to Rajeev, I want to get back to doing these again. Need to order more supplies as well!

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  8. I just found you blog. Thanks for the inspiration. I am getting back to painting after a decades long hiatus. It's nice to see how 'real' artists rework their art and stick with it. Your work is beautiful.

    Vickie

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