Saturday, June 11, 2016

Creative Transparency


Some of my best ideas come either in the shower, or out walking on our property.  Or when the rain is showering me as I walk on our property. Forest and water seem to be great conduits for the Muse, and I'll take all the conductivity I can get.  

Today there were some pretty phenomenal images that passed through my mind, and as usual, about 82% of them were gone by the time I was sitting at my drafting table, but the gist was layers of images painted on transparencies, laid over each other and scanned. I have water media polyester transparency film here in the studio that I've done nothing with but cut stencils out of, so that seemed a good place to start.  Don't believe them when they claim one can watercolor on them.  What a mess! However, some of this image of a woman was watercolor, and when I realized how awful that was, I reinforced with acrylic paint on the back of the film.  Much better!  Still not like paper, but more versatile in that, well, you can layer it over other background stuff! I took some of my Masa Printmaking Paper I have crinkled and done paint spills on in the past, and laid the face over it before scanning.  Even the signature was slipped in at the last minute, white Liquetex Ink on a transparency
bit, like a physical watermark! It's sort of disconcerting I don't have a "hard copy" of this image, but the upside is, I can re-use the bits and pieces over and over, in different ways.  



4 comments:

  1. Sounds like you had a lot of fun Elsbeth - and I love the outcome. Funny how time slips away when we are creating. Hope you are having a lovely weekend - love the result of your experiment. hugs, Donna

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    1. Thank you, Donna! You too. I hope you are doing well. Hugs to you.

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  2. I loved reading all about the process...and like the result shown...the face is great and the way the colors float is something I see as lively and mysterious

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    1. So glad you like it, Winna, it's sort of a manual way of layering that could be better done with an app like ProCreate, but I'm all thumbs when it comes to digital painting!

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