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Sep. 10th, 2006 08:25 amHere's a painting I did for a friend's birthday, with REAL PAINT...
It's framed a little wide so that the mat would crop it to its intended dimension, but I kind of got attached to the way it looked and was a little dsappointed when the top part of the biggest tree got cut off. Oh well, I can live with it. It's funny, to apply the base coat of white, I used the biggest brush in my arsenal – a camel-hair watercolour wash brush, which didn't like the thick sticky acrylic paint much and shed a lot of bristles into it. (You can't see them very well in the scan, though.) It's texture! Yeeeeaaaaah.
Anyhoo, now that I've climed back on the paint bicycle and am not quite so afraid of what might happen if I pick up a brush again, there might be more in the future ... I wonder if I can be brave enough to try gouache. It seems like most of my favourite paintings are done in it.
It's framed a little wide so that the mat would crop it to its intended dimension, but I kind of got attached to the way it looked and was a little dsappointed when the top part of the biggest tree got cut off. Oh well, I can live with it. It's funny, to apply the base coat of white, I used the biggest brush in my arsenal – a camel-hair watercolour wash brush, which didn't like the thick sticky acrylic paint much and shed a lot of bristles into it. (You can't see them very well in the scan, though.) It's texture! Yeeeeaaaaah.
Anyhoo, now that I've climed back on the paint bicycle and am not quite so afraid of what might happen if I pick up a brush again, there might be more in the future ... I wonder if I can be brave enough to try gouache. It seems like most of my favourite paintings are done in it.
