Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists: by Ann Baldwin

By Ann Baldwin

No matter if you might have formal education in portray or no event in any respect, this new in paperback workshop-style ebook is the suitable consultant for any artist drawn to integrating the medium of paint into different forms of art comparable to floor layout, combined media, college, altered artwork, or artwork journaling. Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists explores a wide selection of cutting edge and experimental paint options which could upload gorgeous visible influence and texture to many varieties of work.

—Develop your feel of composition and research new ways to summary design.
—Experiment with texture results, university, inclusions, and encaustic.
—Learn easy methods to use the most recent new items to accomplish magical effects.
—See the right way to use electronic imagery, together with easy methods to do transfers with wax.
—Be encouraged by means of the paintings of a wide selection of innovative, mixed-media artists and experimental painters.

 

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Yellow Caran d'Ache wax-oil crayon has been used to highlight the spaces between the black stripes. ArPROAC H ES TO ABSTRACT DES I G'\J I 51 Experiments in Texture Mixed-media paintings often contain textured materials. Cheesecloth, netting, tissue paper, canvas, string , corrugated cardboard, rice paper, lace, paper doilies, screen netting, paper towels, coffee-cup holders, handmade papers of many kinds, and crumpled newspaper all work well in layered paintings. Some artists attach small objects such as keys, beads, nails, springs, Scrabble letters, jigsaw puzzle pieces, buttons, metal tags, badges, leaves, twigs, seeds, pasta, paper clips, dice, typewriter keys, watch parts, plastic discs, bottle caps, and rivets to their work.

Despite their simplicity, the variety of sizes and treatments makes the paintings interesting. A p PROAC H ES TO ABSTRACT DES I GN I 43 , . , --' ·1 •• • .. Windborne, An n Baldwin, 12" x 12 " (305 x 305 em), ink, digital photograph, acrylic on canvas. Private co llect ion . 44 I CREA TIVE PA I NT WORKSHOP Many of the shapes in this painting are repeated to create rhythm and pattern. The circles, leaves, reeds, and obviously the thistle are organic shapes. These are in contrast to the geometric shapes of the rectangles.

Modeling paste, oi l pastel, ac rylic on ca nvas. The organic character of the final painting relies on the texture. Oil pastels were used to may,e the rings, which wind their way through the painting, creating a visual pathway through the rough terrain. 4S I CREA TIVE PA I N T WORKSHOP Q textured base. Q rough layer of light modeling paste Judging Composition in Abstract Painting MAKING EVERY PART OF YOUR PAINTING WORTH LOOKING AT Composition in abstract painting can be tricky if the shape is in the wrong place.

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