I Think I'll Frame This One........

Good evening All,

It's been wall to wall sunshine this week (in fact nearly two weeks), so any time not

at official work has been spent outside. Plus we are in the middle of the TT racing

festival, the two weeks of the year when the island is lively!

But yesterday afternoon I needed to cool down a bit so I made this....

I am slowly learning how to "drive" the Infusions powders, so that they sort of do what

I want but still have that uncontrollable element of surprise. You never get the same result

twice.

I love the textures that appear

And the romantic effects

So I think I'll frame this one :)

Back to the sunshine now, come back soon, P.

A Trio of Textures....

Good Evening,

It's been all gesso and paint today. Managed to remember to put an apron

on about halfway through the proceedings, so am now picking the white

smudges off my jumper while watching Midsomer Murders.

Playing with texture effects again, trying to be landscapey, but not representative.

A bit of collage, some texture gel and acrylic paint.

It's really good, acrylic paint, because when you get it wrong (and I did!), you

can paint over it all with more gesso and try again :)

This one is supposed to be sky.

I think I am getting a bit nearer.

Will try again tomorrow. P.

Making a Paint Chart....

Hello again,

I don't know why I didn't think of it before. I have a basket full of tubes of

acrylic paint, and I really had no idea what most of the colours are really

like....... all jumbled up, and the colours on the labels are not true representations.

So this afternoon I made a colour chart, just splotches on a strip of watercolour

paper, with the names next to them.

And it's SO useful, as I found out when I made two more textured backgrounds.

You can even visualise how the colours will go together and react in a colour

scheme. I will get so much use out of this.

I am really pleased with these :)  Now I have to work out where to go from here.

Bye for now, P.