Friday 12 June 2020

Revisiting old techniques - Water Distressed Layers

Here's another of my techniques and layer combinations using acrylic paints. I like to turn to these when needing some inspiration and I have been documenting them on media boards as a resource.
You will find them added to my Tutorials and step x steps page found on my sidebar.

This one - Water Distressed Layers - I taught at Ministry of Mixology in April 2019.


Process steps
1. Paint a coat of acrylic paint (phthalo green-yellow) and heat dry.
2. Paint a thickish coat of a different colour (I mixed PGY with some hansa yellow and titan buff) and splatter with largish water droplets. 
3. Start to heat the board but before the watery spots dry lay a piece of clean dry kitchen paper over it to absorb the water. It sucks up some of the paint that has mixed with the water and leaves these gorgeous splatter spots.


4. Repeat step two and three with a coat of another colour (I used the above colours with titanium white). 


5. Move straight onto step six or stamp some text first using archival ink.


6. Finally repeat steps two and three with titanium white. 


7. Finish with some brush splattering of the same colours (I used the last green that was still on my palette and added water to it).


You could leave the finished background looking clean or you could add a watery frame around it.


I'm loving making these technique boards into mini pieces of art.


xxx