Playing with paint… again!

This Thursday, it’s all about – ‘playing with paint’! Well, I’ve been doing that a lot recently, what with the GPP Street Team Crusade #25 to learn the properties of gesso. Today I made another exciting discovery and also finished what I call a chunky collage! Rosie & Linda’s Awfully Big Art Adventure had a wonderful challenge a couple of weeks ago to make chunky ATCs using wooden blocks. As so often happens, I hadn’t any wood or blocks I could use at the time, but I did bring a slab of wood home from the Scrapstore, so I managed to make one of these chunky wooden collages. I like how this turned out and shall be making a couple of festive ones too.

And the other side…

It was interesting working with a chunk of wood as I was able to incorporate many types of medium and techniques – collage, text, stamping, paint through punchinella, ink and glimmer mist and an image transfer too. I like the layers of wood so much I decided to just seal the sides with gel medium. I shall varnish the whole chunk later.

I was trying to decide what to do with this frame, which I had sanded lightly and painted with white gesso. I had also sponged gesso lightly over it too. Mindful of the resist effect of gesso under acrylic paint, I wondered if the sponge effect would look good… So I brushed on purple acrylic paint after masking the back (it has a black velvet covering), and then started to dab a scrunched up piece of kitchen roll over the still wet paint. Wow!! Just like ragging on walls… I like this – you can see the gesso and beneath, just a glimmer of the original gold paint. How cool is that? (Michelle – I get it, really I do!) *claps*

Now all I have to add is an appropriate image inside the frame… I am so excited at the prospect of trying this on a canvas, I can hardly wait! Woohoo!

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Posted by Rosie on November 20, 2008

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