I’m still catching up on Muse Group demos from June. I had promised in the last class that we would do image transfers, but realized that it’s better to have another week to work on them, since the technique can sometimes create some false starts. So instead we used transparent overlays.
This is a great technique to use when you’re not comfortable with your drawing skills but want to incorporate a drawn image into your painting surface. Trace the image you want onto a transparent overlay, which could be regular tracing paper, light-weight “rice paper” or Dura-lar (the acetate alternative). Move it around on the painted surface til you find the sweet spot where the paint shows through to advantage and glue it down with gel medium.
The bird here was my tracing. The paper became transparent when the medium dried so the underpainting shows through.
acrylic inks, transparent image overlay and other collaged paper on w/c paper, 10 X 11″
This señorita keeps her song going all June long. Dresses herself in colors each day, strutting along the limb, doing the limb-o all warm and fluid like an island girl. She keeps one eye on me and wonders why I wear a long face some days, when there’s always a heady fragrance and new tune to dance to.
Come eat your lunch with me, she says. Pura vida! What could be so bad anyway?
Well, don’t get me started, little bird. Don’t you read the newspapers?!!
Nevertheless, I appreciate her concerns, and so I’ve taken to eating my lunch outside under the flight pattern of birds between the bird feeder and fountain where they bathe. It goes a long way to lifting those cares.
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