Showing posts with label OPEN acrylic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OPEN acrylic. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2016

A Little Nostalgia



I was going through some artwork that I had done a few years back and thought I'd share some of my favorites. The particular technique was a fairly easy one, but one that can be very expressive. You pick 3-4 colors of regular acrylic fluid paint, and then also put a glop of Golden OPEN Titanium White and Titan Buff on your palette or palette page. Using a palette knife, add the first colors, each in an area of the canvas, and let them overlap some. Then, immediately add a palette knife of the OPEN white and then some of the titan buff. Using your knife, drag it through the under colors. I liked putting the white at the top of the canvas, pulling it down, and the buff at the bottom and pulling up. I then used the knife to carve through the paint. Golden OPEN acrylic stays wet longer than the regular fluid acrylics and so you have more time to work with your paints. I've sold a few, but here are some I still have hanging in the house.

This is the first one I ever did, called Under The Ice of Venus.
I don't know if Venus has any ice, but that was the first thing I thought of!


This is The Coming Storm - you know how when the rain is beating against the window panes, and it distorts what's outside the window? That's what this made me think of!


The two above are on 12 x 12 wrapped canvases; the one below is on 18 x 24. Because of the designs I put into it, it made me think of a garden, and the artist famous for painting his gardens was Monet, so this is Monet's Garden. I think it's my husband's favorite!


Hope you enjoyed them! I think I'm going to have to make some more here soon.





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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Been A While

Which I'm sure is not news to anyone, if I have any readers left. This past month has been a difficult one, as I have had to learn how to balance trying to promote my artwork, within the confines of this illness. I have been adding photographs, and older pieces of art to my galleries at FineArtAmerica.com and trying to keep up with the different groups I've joined to promote within the site itself, and I have also run myself into a flare/crash, so I have also been spending a lot of time on the bed. I will go sort of backwards here, and show you what I am working on now, then in the upcoming days, show what I have added to the site. (And you can always just go there and see it by yourself!)

Remember, these are all unfinished.

A few whimsical pears .....

An abstract with OPEN paints .....

And a collage.



I'm very tired, so I will leave you to ponder on how these will turn out and hope that you will come back to see!


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Come see my latest postcards I've received on Postcards Buffet!

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Latest Paintings

So, where to start? I think I will share with you my latest paintings. I've been working with a product call OPEN acrylics, by Golden. It allows the working time to last a lot longer, almost like oils, but without the smell and mess. 


I have two colors - the Titanium White and the Titan Buff - which means I can use them with any color.

I use the OPEN Acrylic Gloss to mix with other colors to create a glaze that will give me a long working time with those colors.

So, with these two new products, I created these:

Yesterday's News

Under The Ice Of Venus


The second one is my favorite! But the first one I like too - the goal was to make it look more aged. 


So, what do you think? The first one is for sale, but I think I will keep the other one. :)
I have them both listed in Bellesouth Studio at Fine Art America. Come on by if you are interested in different size prints, or if you are interested in purchasing the red one, Yesterday's News, it's a 12 x 12 x .5 stretched wrapped canvas, and the price is $150. I still need to spray it with a protective coat and it will be ready to hang - no frame needed!




Click on any photo you would like to see closer!
Come see my latest postcards I've received on Postcards Buffet!