Clear Gesso Rescue

I started the day doing some fun sketchbook practise abstracting shapes from some landscape photos. This is not my usual practise, and it was a lot of fun. Once I was done there was some leftover paint, so I used it up in my A3 sketchbook to start a background. I was especially taken with one set of shapes from the play session, and so I replicated them on the same page.

I chose a reference which I thought would give best use of the background, and I started painting the figure. I was not enjoying the way the paint was interacting with the background at all, so I covered the lot in clear gesso and then went in with the pan pastels.

This is definitely something I plan on exploring further, as I really like the effect.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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