Friday, April 13, 2012

Inspired by 21 Secrets again

This is a combo of Dina Wakley's intuitive painted layers and brings in the use of light modeling paste used in Christy Tomlinson's videos.  Again - scribbled with a water soluble black pencil -  painted the shapes and background and then looked for something to paint.  I immediately saw these 3 fish after I looked for a while.  I painted, stenciled with paint and modeling paste, wrote on the fish, added glass bead gel, and some old dictionary text.  This is really a kitchen sink painting!  The colors are vibrant and I love the layers.  It's kind of like there are secrets all through the painting.
 Below is one of the crazy doodle pages I did after watching Diana Trout's video.  I have doodled before - but I was more focused on a Zentangle kind of doodle where the pattern is so important.  Here I just covered the entire page with a continuous line - I curved and zigged and zagged - but never crossed over any line.  I kind of did my own take on it next - just filling in some pattern and looking for recognizable shapes.  I love this exercise because it is a great, completely stress free pre-drawing exercise and also because it is so relaxing!  What fun!!!

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  1. Lots of interesting detail on your fish artwork. Reminds me to use my modeling paste cause I like what you've made of this! Patsy from
    HeARTworks

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  2. I finally found a way to comment lol this new format got me lost for a while.... Anyway, I love the fishies!!!! Great colors, and looks loaded with texture. Wonderful work. Happy PPF

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  3. Oh yeah, great texture on the fish, and love the bright colors against the blue background.

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    1. now I remember where to reply - thanks again for the comments

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