I like the look of dichroic glass pieces and have thought of embedding them into my abstracts. They are a little expensive to buy and make, especially in the size I would like them to be. I decided to try acrylic mediums and iridescent/interference paint as well as resin and…
Read moreOne acrylic medium I like that isn’t made by Golden is KROMA Crackle Gel. It is a gel as opposed to Golden’s Crackle Paste which as the name says is a paste similar in consistency and appearance to Golden Light Molding Paste. It creates a different crackle pattern than Golden’s…
Read moreI do lots of small test/samples of acrylic gels, pastes, and mediums. These are to try out and to experiment with to see what they can do and try out some techniques before painting my abstracts. I mostly use Golden Acrylics, but a few others as well. I like Golden’s…
Read moreHere’s a painting I have been working on. Not sure it’s done. Tried a Blick Premier wood panel (11″ X 14″). Softer wood than Ampersand Hardbord which is a high density board. Made it easier to carve into and you can tell it’s wood. Ampersand is pressed wood particles I…
Read moreThe remaining process is one of adding more layers of acrylic gels and using wood carving tools to “excavate” into the high density board and painting over. Here I decided to add more “cracks” in the bottom surface. I “excavated” the surface with wood carving tools. Here’s a close-up of…
Read moreSince I got back home from my “art vacation” I have been working on the abstracts I started (see previous posts). Here’s where the large abstract is at at the moment and some of the steps in the process. First of all, here again was the sketch I did of…
Read moreI sketched out an idea for a large abstract based on my small studies. I included notes on what I wanted as well as the process for achieving the desired effects. However, on the last day when I started working on it, I had a different idea for how to…
Read moreI started a couple small abstract studies during my vacation. These are inspired by/based on photos of details of my abstracts (See Nov. 8 post). Here’s the small 11″ X 14″ studies I started: I also started one that was inspired by a photograph of the surface detail of something.…
Read moreI worked on several abstracts on my little vacation to Whidbey Island (see last post). Some were unfinished works and several were new. One was actually one I finished and signed back in 2015, but I decided to work on it some more. Here is what it looked like before…
Read moreDetails, details. Here are some close ups of an abstract I have been working on currently titled Surface Entropy.
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