My local art group has a show due on Friday, so I got my paints out yesterday and had some colourful fun! The theme for this show is messy and chaotic, it was a good challenge to not overthink, and not overwork the piece.
It’s approx. 8" x 10.5", acrylic (mostly Golden High Flow), a little bit of modelling paste through a stencil, on 100% cotton Strathmore heavyweight mixed media paper.
I really enjoyed making this one. I like the Golden High Flow, you can thin them to get wet-in-wet watercolour effects, but with the durability of acrylic. All these colours were mixed from just three - yellow, teal, and magenta - and then finished with just a touch of ordinary white mixed with yellow for some opaque highlights.
I LURVE this! The colors are exciting and the subject is comforting. I have had a lot of advertising for the Golden High Flow lately and it’s neat to see something painted with it that wasn’t for advertising by someone I “know”!
Oh this is just lovely. I can’t believe you only mixed three colors on this piece to get all those shades and tones. And the molding paste really adds interest and wonderful texture.
The colours are gorgeous. Very, very nice work!
A friend’s mom used to photograph pears, she moved to auz too! You live in the land of pear transplants
Wow! This is such a fun use of color! I like your technique with the stencil, it definitely adds an unexpected bit of texture. If you ever decide to teach another LC class, I think messy and chaotic would be a great subject!
OMGoodness! This is gorgeous! Don’t know what it’s called but I’ve been wanting to do one of these multicolored paintings for a long time. I’ve tried to evaluate them and it seems that the shadowing and shading is done in different colors. I like using stencils in mixed media artwork too and I haven’t yet used one with a texture medium.
I like pears and I love the text stencil that you used. The painting looks like it has golden metallic highlights because of the way that you painted it. I would not tire of looking at this on my wall.
