Process Interruption
Turns out part of my Process! series of posts includes pressing pause on the January creative exercise I’m working on to experiment with more gift wrap!
I turn to my still inexhaustible supply of 12 x 12″ sheets of tissue-like Dixie All-Purpose Food Wrap and get to work. I paint with a different color palette today—turquoise green, yellow deep, oxide black, and white gesso, but I use my artificial flower as a reference again to get movement and flow going in the early layers of a range of values of green.
I create my ante-penultimate and penultimate layers using white gesso expressed from small squeeze bottles, one with a thin applicator, the other a wider gauge.
Then I take stock—the ‘composition’ needs a little something. But what? With my hands itching to use some kind of marking tool, I remember a set of Faber-Castelle Gelatos, “bâtons de couleurs irisées,” given to me several years ago. Haven’t used them in ages. Pull out one labeled lunar and give it a try.
Yes! Just the right touch!
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When I zoom in really, really close, as I’m often wont to do
, I see so much gorgeous texture. That must feel so yummy to touch. I don’t have Gelatos but I do have a similar product (Marabu) and their creaminess makes them so much fun to use. Thanks for reminding me to use these. I love the greens and the lunar lavenders.The forgotten but remembered treasure in the toolbox was MY gift in making gift wrap! Plus, the gelato color surprised me with an unexpected depth when I put it to use. Gifts all around! Thanks for delighting in the OUTSIDE here with me, Lola!
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