I’ve got a particular fondness for poppies, not just for their connection to the Great War. They’ve become a favorite subject to recreate in my artwork. Here they are in pencil, ink brush and paint:
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Painting (15) Abstract Forest
I wanted to experiment with something a little different – an abstract piece. However, I didn’t want to just smear paint on canvas and call it a day. This will sound a little mad, but I dreamt about painting the night before and how it could be done. I started with an underpainting of unbleached titanium and a tiny bit of black which almost looked like aged stucco when I was finished. (I should have taken a photo, duh.)
Then I used three colors: Cadmium orange, Phthalo green and Dioxazine purple which I squeezed from the tube directly onto the canvas. Next I used a technique I learned from watching a video on how to paint like Willem de Kooning. (Not that this is in his style, but that I used a palette knife to remove paint and expose the underpainting in places.) This is the result:
In the Forest ~ acrylic on 16×20 canvas
Painting (14) Lone Gull
One cool thing about teaching yourself to paint with acrylics is that you can reuse already painted on canvases. That means each time you try something that doesn’t turn out so good, the canvas is not wasted. Trust me, you will waste a lot of canvases in the beginning. A few weeks back, my talented photographer friend, Son of a Beach posted a photo of a lone gull in the sunset and I just knew I wanted to try to paint it. I had just the thing… one of my very first attempts was full of all the colors I would be using for the new painting so no worries about bleeding through. Here’s the result:
Meg Sorick, Author/Artist 