Seeing blue and green!

I’m Guest Hosting at Mixed Media Monday again! Diane is so great having me back and I do so enjoy picking a theme and seeing you all interpret it. I chose to paint an IKEA cheapie mirror a la Layer Love, using a new colour green I couldn’t resist – Viridian Hue – a gorgeous emerald colour. When we took the Layer Love class Julie did warn us that she likes blue and green paintings and I totally get it!

I went back and did a few of the lessons all over again, to see if I could improve/had improved and this was a mixture of Lesson#2 and Lesson#8 (if I remember rightly). Here it is:

There are so many layers I lost count!! I prepped this mirror before we even moved, covering the entire border with text scraps, overlapped and painted with gesso. Then I started building up the layersof paint, after first covering up the mirror in the centre with a couple of coasters. I added a few collage elements, including the ‘stamped-on-text Crow’ from The Gothic Plate (Home Impressions)

I really love the fact that you can still see the grain of the wood faintly! Yes, those are my crooked fingers in the reflection!! Here’s the crow…

Can you see the word “Bird” scratched into the glaze at the bottom? I learnt to ‘write’ and doodle all over these layered paintings – Julie’s a terrific teacher! I can’t wait to sign up for the SuperNova Art Journalling class she’s been preparing. Sign up and registration open next week – August 15th and if it’s anything like her first online class, I bet it’ll be hugely enjoyable, immensely satisfying and the chance to acquire a new skill set (for me, anyway!).

Posted by Rosie on August 9, 2009

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