Monday, 11 May 2020

Revisiting old techniques - watery layers with wax resist

I'm still going back to old layering paint techniques and adding other layers to them. This time I also mixed my paints for nearly every layer, I just love experimenting with colours to see what appears.


Process steps
1. Seal substrate with gesso.
2. Mix dark pinky red using quin red, titan buff, titanium white, burnt umber, paint layer over the whole surface, splatter water droplets, heat a little, soak up excess water with kitchen roll.
3. Repeat by adding diarylide yellow and pyrrole red to the left over mix.
4. Repeat by adding titan buff, titanium white to the mix.
5. Rub wax over the surface, paint a layer of titanium white only, heat gently and rub away with kitchen roll. If not enough rubs away  carry on heating small areas and rubbing in the opposite direction until you are happy with it.
6. Repeat step 5 several times by lightening the colour each time and also experiment with not heat drying the surface at the end.


 Having got the painty layers for your background - you could go on to add more layers with some stamping ..............


 ............. transfers or rub-ons .............


........ some die-cuts ...........


............... some stamped ephemera or images ..........



................... a vintage photo ....................


...... or maybe a completely different set of further layers. These were just for ideas.


xxx