Saturday's weather was too nice and it was impossible to spend more than a few hours in the studio, Sunday I got up early and got 4 hours in before church and a few more while Caleb napped in the afternoon.
Red Portrait progress in background, on the floor are two panels that were selected to have some texture and pattern added to them.
Initial tape and a variety of house paints, polyurethane and matte medium.
Here's the resulting effect. I worked with colors that don't appeal to me because I envision covering this whole thing with gray paint and sanding back to get some hits of color from this base. The other goal is to have a more varied painting surface to paint on eventually.
I tried something new with the tape I pulled off of the panels, rather than just throwing it away I used the paint that remained on the front and applied the strip of tape, paint side down to other panels — resulting in a transfer of sorts. The thought has occurred to be before to save all of these tape fragments and use them for collage elements on these panels. But for some reason I have enforced a "no-collage" rule on myself for now and this was a way to use the tape and discarded paint. Sorry I forgot to shoot a pic of the panels with the transfered paint. I'll do that next time.
More progress on this iron painting, top panel paired with a new bottom, just to look at different color.
Simply wanted to see what these to things looked like together. (I apologize this image is of really poor quality.)
Progress on Brushing Teeth, time spent blocking in large forms, attempting to accurately describe the proportions, especially of the hand holding the brush.
What is the process of reapplying / transferring the paint from the tape. Are you putting it down face down and rubbing the backside? I like the idea of using the mask to make a mark.
ReplyDeleteSometimes with a pattern stencil I will turn it over to spray the reflected shape before it is dry and the result is a transfer of that paint where there is pressure on the back of the stencil. Usually there is a nice crisp edge and a bit of background between the two shapes of paint. The transfered paint has a bit of a texture to it as well which is a nice contrast to the smooth sprayed paint.
Great seeing the working process! I'll try to get some pictures of what I was describing here at some point.
Well I only attempted this a few times the other night, but yes, masked taped once removed was placed face down on the new panel and then pressure applied to transfer the paint. This of course was difficult because of the adhesive back. So rather than a clean transfer it was more of a smearing action. I am thinking about trying this with large strips of wax paper instead of tape. The initial wax paper mask would not be a clean mask but that might create some neat marks and then the wax paper mask would maybe offer a better transfer material. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see what you were describing with the reversed stencil. Sounds nice and it is a neat contrast to the control you would typically anticipate with the stencil when used normally.
(sorry for posting twice, I had a confusing typo in the first post)