Covered it with black gesso, grabbed a ceramic tile for a starting color reference, mixed up colors, and let an expression of salty seawater and phytoplankton make itself known.
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| work in progress 16 x 20'; acrylic on canvas |
Monday, March 11, 2019
Up from Below the Surface
When inner sub-marine currents started nudging, I pulled out a painted canvas previously featured on September 4, 2017 and October 17, 22, and 23 of 2018.
Covered it with black gesso, grabbed a ceramic tile for a starting color reference, mixed up colors, and let an expression of salty seawater and phytoplankton make itself known.
Covered it with black gesso, grabbed a ceramic tile for a starting color reference, mixed up colors, and let an expression of salty seawater and phytoplankton make itself known.
8 comments:
I never worked with black gesso, it looks dark and inviting! It probably asks for other gestures and colors. I'm going to try it out! Lot's of free time before me to try and try and try!
I've just begun playing with black gesso. As I think I mentioned previously, it begs me to leave some of it showing which feels both complicating and like an open invitation to experiment.
Love that you have lots of free time before you : )
oooooooooh love love love. Black gesso is one of my favorites! This is absolutely gorgeous. And bathroom tile as a reference? What a perfect way to meld home renovation and art!
Black gesso more fun to apply than white. Still feels very new to me; just slapped some on another already-painted masonite panel.
Thanks for your enthusiasm here, Jen! And, yes, bathroom tile for color reference : )
Underwater exploration. How exciting. :) Pop. Pop. POP!!
Haven't seen black gesso around here! I just love the loose airy strokes, which I know will soon be covered over or not!
Looks a little more like an underwater explosion than exploration here, with the pop pop POPs of color in an upward surge, hahaha, but 'tis exciting to be channeling ocean through paint : )
I'd heard mention of black gesso a few times online so ordered me some. Thanks for appreciating the 'loose airy strokes' which I executed with complete contentment, and for knowing there will no doubt be more paint to come, covering over or not : )
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