I had originally picked out a different view for the last painting, but today I made a last-minute decision to go with this instead:
I'm excited to see where I can take these.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
AEDM day 11: Two new paintings
A while ago I bought a group of four 45x45cm canvases, intending to make them into a series of Munich scenes. The first two are almost done (here's the first one and the second one); today I started on the last two canvases by sketching out the basics of the scenes:
I had originally picked out a different view for the last painting, but today I made a last-minute decision to go with this instead:
I'm excited to see where I can take these.
I had originally picked out a different view for the last painting, but today I made a last-minute decision to go with this instead:
I'm excited to see where I can take these.
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HI Jul
Saw your entry at AEDM - What do you use on your canvases - they look like they are glowing in the dark.
Like the city scenes.
Emma
http://emma-outback.blogspot.com
Nothing special - just acrylic paints of various qualities and consistencies. I start by painting the whole canvas black (I used to have black gesso I used for this, but I can't find any of that here), and I use the paints pretty undiluted.
Maybe it's just the sheen of light hitting the canvas - I'm not particularly good at photographing them.
I say hooray for art everyday.
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