Bob passed on a long roll of Mylar to me, so I shared it in Muse Group to see what we could do with it. Here’s a couple variations.
It’s shiny stuff! Highly reflective. Look into it and it becomes a fun-house mirror. Paint with acrylics on it and they flow unheeded. Not so easy to photograph, but I had to share the discoveries here anyway. (Meanwhile my husband has started a new series photographing Mylar in stunning ways!)
Acrylic on mylar on painted paper with painted plaster medallion
Duck! Put your head down! The slings are loaded with outrageous fortunes.
You may want to take cover for a while,
But keep an eye open for the next opportunity. The nectar will be waiting.
(But then, maybe it’s a gentle rain of the spring kind, full of golden glints and distant blue skies. Not a time to be blue.)
Painting with acrylics on Mylar, which has a mirror-like surface, is fun! I dripped and squirted fluid acrylic inks and tipped the board and watched them flow and do their own thing. It turned out to be sort of a butterfly shape, so I cut it out, painted a background on paper and collaged it on. The “medallion” was made of plaster of paris, dried and painted to look like a stone. The “slings” and “arrows” are more mylar and a plastic scraper dipped in paint.
Once again, really hard to photograph! But here I folded the Mylar in a grid and dripped the inks on, spritzing with water to get them to flow and settle, coaxing them into spaces where I wanted them. When I glued it onto the paper I left it loose so that the squares would reflect the light in many ways. The students folded the Mylar in different ways to get stunning effects!
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