The Twitter Art Exhibit is a great initiative, open to all artists worldwide. All you need is to have a twitter account, artists are sending postcard sized original works of arts and proceeds go to Art Division, a nonprofit program supporting undeserved young adults (18-25) in L.A.’s Rampart District, in preparation for careers in the visual arts. See all details here: http://twitterartexhibit.org/
For this small work I wanted to try something different, I wanted to have both some pencil drawing and watercolor paint, but I wanted the drawing to as much a part of the painting as the paint.
I started by making a detailed pencil drawing on paper.
To fix the pencil drawing, I painted on top with acrylic gel medium.
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Gel mediums are ideal for extending a heavy body paint, to create impasto, relief, or sculptural effects. – Gel Medium, Gloss
The paper I did draw on is a bit fin, so I glue it on a thicker watercolor paper using gel medium and a brayer.
I then paint with watercolors on top of the gel medium once it dried. It is very similar to painting on yupo paper as you can take off any excess paint with a tissue paper.
Originally from France, I have been living in North Vancouver, Canada for the past 20 years.
My work has been collected and exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally. I am also part of the Art Rentals and sales program of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Many of my paintings have been published in Art books and magazines (Artist Magazine, Watercolor Artist Magazine, Acrylic Magazine, International Artist Magazine). I wrote 2 art instruction books with North Light/F+W Books.
I have been writing for the last 5 years for my blog: paintingdemos.com, that has a mailing list of about 10 000 subscribers and about 20 000 visitors per month.
I am an active member in the community, as a co-founder of the North Shore Art crawl, a co-founder of a weekly life drawing group, a board member of the North Vancouver Arts Council, and have been invited as a juror for public art, art grants and juried exhibitions. You can read more about my collaborations here.
Thanks Dawn, it is still looking good:)
I am not sure about long term archival properties because of the acids in the oil paint but will write to the yupo paper corporation, inquiring about that.
dawn
thanks, please keep me posted on your findings.
Shirley Spooner
You are very talented. I must try that for myself.
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dawn
read the article with the poppies, what was the outcome as it dried? I love the way it looked.
Sandrine Pelissier
Thanks Dawn, it is still looking good:)
I am not sure about long term archival properties because of the acids in the oil paint but will write to the yupo paper corporation, inquiring about that.
dawn
thanks, please keep me posted on your findings.
Shirley Spooner
You are very talented. I must try that for myself.