Today's video was about all the different ways to use our acrylic mediums and paints. Jimmy Leslie also suggested using supplies that are lying around the house and yard for applying our mediums or for adding 3-D elements to our collage work. So I used the mediums I had to do to my two pieces. I tried making skins with my acrylic paints plus Airbrush Flow Medium. It takes practice! How to spread the paint on a surface, how thick if you want transparency, and how to remove it in more than a zillion small pieces when it dries! I had thought to make fairly large pieces so that I could cut it into strips to weave together, thereby changing the colors. For example, Jimmy showed a hanging piece that had the three primaries of red, yellow, blue. When they were woven together the yellow and blue made green, etc. But alas! My paint was applied to thinly, and totally shredded when I tried to remove it from the palette. I decided to glue it onto a clear plastic card cover. I did overlap some shreds and for at night when there is not window light behind it, I added some opaque paint in drips, and dashes here and there.
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| Examples of skins using either Credit card, knife or brayer to apply to palette paper. |
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| On the window, you can see through the lighter colors |
Flat on the table to see how it will look at night on the window
For my other part of this project, I painted over an old painting with 2 coats of Black Gesso. Then I used my Flexible Modeling Paste to Stencil some large snowflakes along the top edge. I added a Stencil of a bird using Ceramic Stucco and a dried twig. I used Heavy Gel Medium to cement down the twig. Then I had to let everything dry. Next I added some Handmade collage paper along the bottom edge. I used SILKS paints to color the stucco on the bird and splattered with white Fluid Acrylic paint. I wondered about adding more, or changing the bird to look more like a Cardinal, but decided I liked it as it is.
