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...
I sit here in awe!
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Michelle
Brain Angles - Invisible Ink
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteLooks awesome Patty. What do you use to adhere the paper to the substrate? And how do you do the process? Inquiring minds what to know :-)
ReplyDeleteRandy, I use Golden Soft Gel (semi gloss) medium to adhere the paper. I've used a gallery wrapped canvas for the substrate in this piece. I use pieces of old watercolours that didn't work, paper painted expressly for collage, and pieces from old magazines, books, etc. Thanks for asking!
ReplyDeleteMichelle, thanks!
Thank you, Ona!
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