The 8"x8" series of nine panels seems a little small. It would not take any more time to make the same image a little bigger. So I ordered two packs of four 10"x10" wood panel from Amazon. At 6 bucks a piece, there is no way I will bother making them!
I started finishing up the Second row of images, starting with this:
and ending up with this:
I printed all the component images and background patterns, and started working on all 8 panel backgrounds with straight pigments, which I sprayed heavily with very diluted Gum Arabic to fix them. I find I can get particularly vivid colors this way.I laid some images on the panels to check that colors match:
The most difficult will be the blue bird, because I want the image to melt into the background perfectly. The blue is about perfect, but the magenta on the botton needs a lot of adjustment.
I will add a little more visual texture with pastels and spit, then spray again with the Gum Arabic solution.
As I explained before, spitting does works well to texture backgrounds, and it's a way to put some of my DNA into the painting as an invisible signature. I like that.
I started finishing up the Second row of images, starting with this:
and ending up with this:
I printed all the component images and background patterns, and started working on all 8 panel backgrounds with straight pigments, which I sprayed heavily with very diluted Gum Arabic to fix them. I find I can get particularly vivid colors this way.I laid some images on the panels to check that colors match:
The most difficult will be the blue bird, because I want the image to melt into the background perfectly. The blue is about perfect, but the magenta on the botton needs a lot of adjustment.
I will add a little more visual texture with pastels and spit, then spray again with the Gum Arabic solution.
As I explained before, spitting does works well to texture backgrounds, and it's a way to put some of my DNA into the painting as an invisible signature. I like that.
