Mixed Media on cotton canvas
'Wonders Of Cuprum' another slightly large original painting of mine where I used fourteen different beautiful colours on this piece, and it all started with a base, which is cadmium yellow in deep hue, then I went into the second base where I used a technique which is special to me and that is the '"S" Technique', I have used burgundy and pale terracotta. The rest of the colours that I used in the technique, in which I call the 'Blotting Technique' are the following gorgeous colours, scarlet, crimson red, winsor blue, mid yellow, vermillion hue, raw sienna opaque, green gold, permanent alizarin crimson, cadmium yellow in medium hue, mars black, naples yellow, and pale lemon -- all of those colours ended up with what you see above. And before varnishing her, I have used copper all over the piece -- which I adore so much and also why ended up calling her 'Wonders Of Cuprum'. Oh! This piece just looks so stunning in real life. *heart eyes*
Let us talk a little bit about the techniques I have mentioned above.
The '"S" Technique' is something perhaps somebody has figured out before me, hands down to them, thanks very much for inventing it, but if not, I am putting myself responsible for the invention of it. :D
I used pallette knives to form the "S" shape and it is so calming beyond words to see different colours blend well even though they normally do not if you just put them right next to each other. But using this technique is just brilliant!
On the other hand, the 'Blotting Technique' - I used pallette knives to literally blot the paint and blend them in a way where they look like water ripples, but, in a slightly different way. Sometimes when I look at her, she looks like something from the sky, a type of galaxy, other times, I can see a forest in autumn, with a river bank in the middle. It just shows how abstract really does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality, according from the Tate. :)
On the preview examples on how they look on walls, this piece can actually be positioned in many different ways. Whatever the position is, this piece is just utterly beautiful!
No matter how terrible or good enough I take my photographs I can never convey how spectacular my artworks look in real life. There are a lot of reason for this - lighting, viewing distance, camera lenses, mobile phone screens and image compression. It’s the same for all of my paintings and this one especially.
