#acylicart

[fenhuang]

Painted my first easter egg of the year. One giant ostrich egg shell from a local breeder and some acrylics later, the centerpiece for some to be determined easter decoration is done!

[fenhuang]

So I finished the last touches on this project: Acrylics and structural paste on canvas, 40x 60cm.

Since I wanted to play around with the techniques, not the motive, I found a line drawing of a suitable flower on the interwebs and manually resized it until I was happy with it.

Apparently, this grid-thingy they made us play around as kids in elementary actually works for changing sizes of patterns, who knew?

Colour the backside of the sheet where the lines go with a soft lead pencil, lightly tack the paper to the canvas, go over each line with a harder pencil or a ballpoint and presto: One dahlia with none off the fuss of actually trying to draw one yourself!

I applied the paste with an improvised pastry bag (plastic bags with a corner cut of) and a wet brush for the flower and a spatula for the leaves. Acrylics usually get mixed into the paste in a lighter shade than the actually wanted colour, then painted over for more depth.

[thescorpionmonarch]

So my parents decided to hang this up in their house and I have forgotten it for a while.

[bathrobeprincess]

[wynonas]

[wynonas]

[lucyloowales-designmarketing]

I decided to try out a time lapse for my most recent painting. This is a 36″x36″ painting of a fetus with an abstract placenta. I think I might do more, I haven’t decided.

[nymeria-elizabeth26-blog]