Last night, in my late night scramble to find a subject to paint, I realized I've been neglecting glass. All those reflections! I never feel like I have enough time to get into that complexity, it seems so time consuming. Excuses, excuses. So I reached for a pretty little bottle of perfume sitting on my dresser and forged ahead bravely. Truth be known, glass is like anything else... one color spot next to another color spot, keep the values correct, don't get too fussy. When I find that my paint starts to get sticky and tacky (1- 1.5 hours) I know its time to quit. The properties of acrylic paint make it a perfect automatic alarm clock. Glass - its fun!
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Acrylic on Canvas 6x6"
5 comments:
I really like your acrylic paintings, both for the spontaneity, colors and sure handedness in the paintings themselves, but also because you use acrylics in a way that I normally only see oils used. What kind of acrylics and mediums do you use?
Great Painting!! You are extremely good with acrylics.
Just found your blog and had fun exploring! I really like your work and I look forward to seeing what you do in the coming year!
Love this Patti! I agree with Christi about the acrylic thing. If I hadn't seen you in person and talked to you, I wouldn't believe these are acrylics. You are amazing with them!
Hi Gals - and thanks very much for your kind comments! I use Golden Heavy Body acrylics. Golden is the best - very high pigment load, beautiful consistency in all their paints. As a matter of fact, I liked their products so much I became a part-time "working artist" for them. Spent this summer training and learning about all their gels, mediums, pastes, various paints, etc. All I can say is WOW - there are so many cool products to play with in the Acrylic lineup. Today I'm going to do a lecture/demonstration for an art association, where I will be doing 4 different paintings on 4 different grounds, or surfaces, to show how the grounds (pastes and gels) affect the paint application. Preparing for this demonstration has been a mind blowing experience - the possibilities are endless regarding all the different techniques possible when you use these products. In advance I have created about 8 paintings of the same image on various surfaces, each resulting in a very different look and feel, and I will do at least 4 more today "live". Many of these involve working in a watercolor type manner, which is completely new to me, as I've always worked in heavy thick paint (and will most likely continue to). This is seriously FUN stuff (hows that for an oxymoron?). I'll post the results of the demo as my daily blog today, so wish me luck and stay tuned...
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