Diana's Projects

Turns out Acrylic paint dries wonderfully. Applying the masking tape over existing paint was no bother in the end. As long as I applied my de-stickiness technique, everything went fine. This is the test page I chose to expand on. Not much to work with. So i addded red. A lot of red. Too much in fact. It clashes horribly. Horribly . So I added more to it. I chose green, as it would bring forward the blue, and yellow as it was a friend of green. And this is the final product. I like it much better now.

So I decided to create some sharp edges/lines. Purchased some masking tape from B&M and got started. Unfortunately, I did not remember to reduce stickiness of the tape before applying it.  Oh well, we live and learn. Also, the tear kinda adds a mood to it. I abandoned that one and moved on to lighter colours. Hoping my sticky-reducing tactic had worked. It did. And I left it at that. I hadn't yet tried to stick tape back on top of my paint. Honestly, I was kinda scared to. But that's the next step.  Gotta paint all over. Gotta finish these up.

So, I've been painting, I guess. I've just been mixing up some colours. Whacking it on a page. Mostly I've been watching Naruto tbh.  But I find this kind of painting strange. I'm not painting things. I've always painted things. Now I'm just painting.  Some feel unfinished, but I don't know what they need yet.  So I'm just painting. I haven't even bothered with the linear inking on top. I can't think of what the paint needs on top. Such a strange way of thinking for me. A strange way of painting. It's so different. I'm not priming all of them, so you can still see some of the questions underneath lol This one, I reversed the paintbrush and scored a strange flower in to the paint. Just wanted to see  what it would look like. Interesting; as I had a couple of layers on this one, and some layers had started to dry.

So, due to the coronavirus loitering around the world, I've found myself with a lot of free time. I haven't had free time in ... Well, quite a while. I dug out my paints, and thought I'd try messing about with them. Turns out I've forgotten how to paint. So I must mess about, until it comes back to me. Here is a couple of weird experiments.  I can still draw though.  I like the effect and will try more linear art on top of acrylic gradients. It has a really simple look that I like. Also I'm currently painting in an old work book. I don't need it anymore, and they don't need it back.  So meh, why not? Will need to prime each page though. Let's see what I end up with.