New Dry Medium painting at the Easter Show
On Sunday I was demonstrating on the Matisse Derivan stand at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I painted this new Cubist painting with the new Dry Mediums. I got this idea from a Cubist painting of a coffee pot in a great book I have called 200 Projects to Strengthen Your Art Skills: For Aspiring Art Students (Aspire)
It is a great book with so many unusual ideas in it, and I particularly love the colours. So, though you can’t see in this small image, I collaged the canvas with torn strips of the Sydney Morning Herald, then painted over them with Matisse Matt Gel Medium MM30 and a little Yellow Oxide to strengthen the newsprint. Then I did the drawing (from some thumbnails I’d done in my sketchbook. After that I put on the dry mediums. The pot and coffee cup are mostly the different grades of sand, the pumice and the mica flakes. In the background I made thin cube -like shapes, some from Microspheres and some from Wollastonite. These are relatively transparent and allowed the text on the newsprint to show through. Then I painted it at the show.
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On Sunday I was demonstrating on the Matisse Derivan stand at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I painted this new Cubist painting with the new Dry Mediums. I got this idea from a Cubist painting of a coffee pot in a great book I have called 200 Projects to Strengthen Your Art Skills: For Aspiring Art Students (Aspire)
8 responses so far ↓
caseytoussaint // April 21, 2009 at 11:04 pm |
Wow – sounds like an interesting technique. You are always out there trying new things – thanks for the inspiration.
Mark // April 22, 2009 at 2:48 am |
Great work. The painting that you were refering to I would call a cubist style. (rather than futurism) Thanks for viewing and commenting. I like this experimental style that you are working with.
-Mark
Robyn // April 25, 2009 at 3:27 am |
Yep, I recognise a Cubist when I see one
Very nice colours and amazing texture, Wendy.
Joan T // April 26, 2009 at 1:27 am |
Interesting shapes and textures in this!!! Good work!
Barb Hartsook @OverCoffeeBlog // May 16, 2009 at 8:46 pm |
I LOVE the coffee pot and cup! From the colors to the textures to the abstractions. Wonderful — as often happens here, I click and click away to find all your references and resources. (Will order the book — looks fun.)
Would love to be your within-walking-distance neighbor just to see what you’re up to in the studio.
Liz Steel // May 16, 2009 at 9:27 pm |
WOW! I really love this. The book sounds interesting too!
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