Tag: mixed media
-
Texture Choices
There was a lot of playing and testing and whatnot went on today, but it’s not exactly coherent or photogenic, so here’s a snippet of the canvas board I was testing ideas on next to the hare I painted yesterday. It was a productive day, even if it doesn’t look like it, and decisions have…
-
Pyrrole Orange Hare
I have been trying to fall in love with this sketchbook but it just is not the same as either of the two cheap as chips unbranded ones I had in my stash that I filled and miss. It is not always the case that the better paper is the better paper, sometimes the cheap…
-
Mixed Marks
I added more texture to my very textured portrait today. I used marble dust, which I have never used before, so this is very much a do it and see what happens. I am not by any stretch of the imagination and old master, although my left knee may well be, but not at painting,…
-
Going Grey
I have been procrastinating, and I procrastinated again today. In fairness, my procrastination took the form of other creative pursuits, rather than inventing housework, or doomscrolling, but it was still procrastination. I’m not even sure why I was procrastinating, because I knew exactly what my next steps were, with the exception of what I wanted…
-
Background Layers
I was hoping to get a bit more of this done today, but it was one of those days when there were deliveries due, and I just don’t settle until they are dealt with. This was made more frustrating because the second delivery made it to right outside my house, and I stood and watched…
-
Charcoal and Texture
I don’t know why I don’t use charcoal more often, because I love using it. It’s especially yummy on my yummy textured piece. I’m using a selfie that I have used before as a reference for this one, and I am leaving it here for the day so I can walk in first thing and…
-
A Plan Comes Together-ish
There was a lot of pottering about with various things today, and the most photogenic is this one. I have nailed the printing and transparency aspect of this idea, and now I have to get the fiddly, very thin, very wet, very much wanting to cling to itself thing to land where I want it…
-
Planting Ideas and Things
I had an unplanned stint in the garden today because a pot luck box of Sedum cuttings arrived a day early. I’m not complaining. The box was stuffed with way more plants than I was expecting, and I’m not complaining about that either. Some of them are so tiny, but they are easy to get…
-
Making a Transparency Using an Inkjet Print (cont.)
I was thinking I had probably exhausted the options for this deep-dive, other than honing my skills with the application process, and I was thinking I was satisfied with my discoveries. Then I had an idea. I wasn’t even thinking about art, or this process, or anything at all to do with art, I was…
-
Inkjet Image Transfer Concertina
I’m back in the studio today, but yesterday definitely filled the well, and there are lots of ideas, and I’m making notes of them, because I’m incredibly talented at generating ideas and forgetting them within a day. I’m still playing with image transfer ideas and techniques, specifically inkjet print image transfers. The portrait prints I…
-
Hung Out To Dry
I pulled out every transparent, or potentially transparent, paper I could think of, and put them through the printer. They are all quite thin, so needed to be attached to a carrier paper, so there was some fiddling, and trimming going on. I’ve printed the same image with the same printer settings on all eight…
-
Collage Fodder and a Tap
Today was a disrupted day because we had a plumber coming to fit and outside tap. I am chuffed to bits that we now have an outside tap, especially given the forecast is for a long, dry summer. I am not chuffed about the climate change part of that, but the easier job of watering…
Thrummie Bizzum 