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"Mr. Right" 11" x 11" $195
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Whenever I get myself into deep trouble, I actually get excited! I know, you think I'm bonkers, but when this happens, I have to reinvent the wheel, and I usually am ready to have a breakthrough! This happened today, when working on this painting. I knew that I wanted a warm underpainting, so I grabbed all kinds of yellows and iron oxide, etc. I then decided on impulse to add just a little of black. I spread the dots of color, with a rubber Catalyst wedge, that had notches in it. Below is the result of that process. Yikes! I saw this underpainting, and thought, "Well this is a fine mess you've gotten yourself into, Lucy". But then, I decided to add a layer of yellow to unify the background and that turned the black to an army green color. Then I added gesso on top, and flicked some alcohol and water drops to get the speckled look. Now, I was cooking! My objective on this one was to have really high contrast. So I knew from the beginning that I wanted the bottom black and the top a light color. Once the gesso effect dried, I toned it with an aqua color. I'm going to have a hard time letting this painting go. It's such a great breakthrough. Even the bottom black area has depth, due to a dripping process. The thing that I'm most pleased with is the soft edges, and all the mystery created by all the layering. Tomorrow, I'm painting a girl to go with this one. They are meant to be sold together, I hope!
It is wonderful to have a breakthrough! This is exactly the benefit of making mistakes. Looking forward to tomorrow's painting now.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your process - I am interested in how you achieve these great surfaces you paint. Thinking of breaking out a little and experimenting, now I know what I need to do that. This looks like such fun!!
ReplyDeleteThis is very cool. Would love to see all the layers in this process.
ReplyDeleteSo awesome! I love hearing about your oops, and breakthrough! The texture is so cool...this looks like encaustic.
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