Another page, another chance to play!So, lately I have been thinking about trying out a new technique. It is simply putting paint on the page/canvas and then doodling according to the lines of where the paint meets at different colors.
Having a black background to start with was going to be a bit of a challenge, but I decided not to think and to just do and see what happens.
I remember seeing a video from Christy Sobolewski (http://www.youtube.com/user/GulfSpr1te) of how she put dabs of gel medium and then stuck pieces of book paper on it, then she ripped them off and had nice patches of that text paper. I tried that out, using my wood glue instead of the gel medium. It didn't seem to work this time. Not sure if it was the amount of glue I used or being too impatient and ripping the paper off before the glue completely dried. Anyway. cutting strips of text paper and sticking them worked ok, in the end.
Now, for the technique of paint then doodling. I just went crazy, seriously! Letting go of all inhibitions and control, I just started playing like a little kid would. I also didn't apply any of the acrylic paint with brushes here (only used that for the gesso). I like not having to clean a brush so often.
Enjoying the application of the different colors I reverted to some finger painting of blobs, or circles... as some call it. The time then came to test the white fluid markers I had, since I had to use white for doodling instead of my normal black. I was pretty lucky that day because the white marker I had with the fine tip, had it for over a year, hadn't worked before! BUTT!!! It decided to work that day and I got to get carried away.
By just following the where the colors meet, the page ended up looking like a map. A completely "naturally" made map (LOL). This map was the inspiration for the quote of "Around the world we go!" :)
I just kept going with it and kept stopping my mind from thinking. Whatever came at that moment to do, I just did it! Grabbing different pens and BAAAAM just doing it :) some worked, some didn't, but that didn't stop me.
I got loads of pleasant surprises while working on this page. For instance, how I doodled with a red marker and then outlined that with white, while the background is yellow, and got a great effect and the colors changed completely... I was AMAZED :) Love it Love it Love it!!!
There was a lot of detail work on this page, but it was worth it. It felt like meditation! I must do this more often :)
When was the last time you felt like that while doing a piece of art, or anything else that you enjoyed so much? Please share your experience :)
This is the full spread:
Check out the video for the full creative process:
Supplies used: (in order of appearance)
- Wood glue
- Transfer paper (recycled)
- Black gesso (homemade from black acrylic and white gesso)
- Text paper from an old book
- Acrylic paint
- White fluid paint pens
- Permanent markers
- Acrylic varnish (to seal the page)
