a journey in mark making
Working on canvas for something completely fun, trial and error but still another learning – bit messy though. Not sure how this could be sealed as it is acrylic paint and crayon.
Moving to level 3 of Lockdown after 33 days, in some ways a relief and in other ways not much will change. Stay home, break the chain. New Zealand has done amazingly well in these dire times.
Another small fun piece. Losing track of which day we’re in as far as the lockdown goes so no number for this one. It will have a sibling in due course. Using the paint pens I bought a while ago, tracking over many layers of paint.
A quote I found attributed to one Neil Gaiman.. “The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before”
ain’t that so
Working in acrylic paint to print with recycled plastic bags onto standard 110gm cartridge paper – not bad for a first effort. I want texture and line in my work, that’s a given, so this pleases me, but it’s only a start. The process can be frustrating, but hey, it’s a learning.
This is a relative of the previous piece, a bit more structure and linear approach here. Getting the balance. Could make a diptych in due course. The graphite gives the underpainting a slight sparkle, hard to see in this pic. Using a palette knife and the edge of the card as I often do, and scoring the straight lines with a sharpened stick.
So we’re in lockdown, with all the time in the world to make art. YAY. !!!
Getting a bit of free space in my art room now that I have had a good shuffle of the materials on the bench. Trying out some new techniques, and some old ones which are still unique to my process. This is smallish, on heavy paper which is a common way of working at the moment. Gesso, paint, rubbing back, stencil etc. I like the way the underpainting shows through in patches, and I am loving the orange – a GO FAST colour for the best of times.
I’m not expecting to do one of these every day of the lockdown, but today was cruisey and peaceful.
It’s times like this that we need all the art inspiration we can get…………..and give.
KIA KAHA to all my artist friends out there.