Saturday 20 June 2009

Canvases

I've been playing with texture on canvas. I've learnt that working on two at a time is a good thing - while you are working on one, the other is drying and vice versa.

I added texture using a range of Golden products - coarse & fine garnet gel, light moulding paste, clear granular gel, pumice gel, fibre gel medium and clear tar gel dribbled on last - that's what makes the raised 'veins' you can see on both canvases. I am learning that as well as adding texture, each of these products takes the paint slightly differently, adding to the textured effects.


Once the canvases have all the textures added, and all the products have dried (several hours, leaving them overnight is easiest for impatient artists!), I added 2 thin coats of raw umber fluid acrylic paint. For the canvas above, I then added interference oxide violet and interference oxide green fluid acrylics. For the one below, I just dabbed a little bronze here and there. The final touch for the backgrounds was to add a little Treasure Gold to the high points - I used Amethyst on the canvas above, and Onyxite and Classic Gold on the one below.


The images on these canvases are made of Friendly Plastic - the top one was made using scraps in a mould I made from a milagro ornament, then given a rub of Treasure Gold Amethyst and highlighted with Classic Gold. The bottom canvas has a 'shrine' made from Perfect Paper and a rubber stamp, coloured in the same way as the background, with an art nouveau head made in a mould, coloured the same way as the background.

14 comments:

  1. Lovely - looks like you have been having fun

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  2. These are wonderful. The texture is gorgeous.

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  3. These came out beautiful. I have to try the friendly plastic, you make it look easy.

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  4. WOW, these are amazing. Your 'sharing' your art and creativity is greatly appreciated.

    Hugz......

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  5. Never left a comment on here before and I thought that I should. I just love those golden products and the results are brilliant. Love what you have created.

    Elizabeth

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  6. These are amazing. Love the one with the woman's head.

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  7. lovely textures on your canvases!

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  8. You do such amazing work. One of these days I'm going to have to get myself some friendly plastic to play with...

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  9. Those are spectacular! I love them!

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  10. ..your art is such an inspiration to me! These are awesome as always...hugs Cathee ..from CCswaps

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  11. Another wonderful post - you certainly have been busy! Your experiments always come out so well (mine usually end up in the bin). Super!

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  12. Love what you've done with these pieces - so textural.

    Came across your blog via Genie - I'm in Tredegar, but come to Brecon every Tuesday to lead a choir in the Gremlin! (Last week this week - until 8th Sept)

    Have a look at my blog, and maybe visit my expo at the Court Cupboard Gallery, Abergavenny.

    ...and maybe we could meet up sometime as we're so close...

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  13. These are to die for - you are uber talented Miss Adrienne!

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  14. thanks for so generously sharing your process. Looks like metal Great! I stayed at a monastery a couple of years ago and there were little saint plaques everywhere. These pieces remind me of those.... very cool!

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