Continuation of Verb paintings

Spread and dollop

For this piece, I started by dolloping paint around my paper. I then used a palette knife to spread the paint around. I wanted to get a range of the flat colours along with the colours that had been mixed together. I also wanted to try to keep some of the texture of the thick paint dollops to add more dimension. I would like to make more works with this technique however I would like to focus more on keeping the thick parts of the paint and having more texture.

Dilute, dab, soak, and dot

In these pieces, I started by soaking sections of my paper with water and used two different techniques of applying the watercolour. The first technique was dotting the watercolour around the paper. I found that I had to go over and do two layers of dots as the watercolour started to bleed and didn’t hold the shapes I was hoping to create. On the pink one, I decided to dot the watercolour around the soaked paper to see the difference between the dots with and without the water. The other technique I used was to put the watercolour all over the page and dab another page onto it to transfer and duplicate the image. I think this technique may have worked a little better if I had used darker colours as the result I got was quite light.

Stamp, press, and tracing

for this work, I started looking at tracing and my original idea was to do a rubbing work of the leaves however I decided that I wanted to try something different that I hadn’t tried before. Instead, I painted the leaves and used them as a stamp. I also tried painting around the edge of the leaves as I was stamping them to make the shape/ edges of the leaves stand out.

pour, drip, and scrape

for these works, I mixed together glue and paint to create a shiny effect. For my first work, I used a combination of the glue mixed with paint and dripped it onto the paper. From there I used a palette knife and scraped the mix in upwards and sideways to create the gridded pattern. In my other work, I poured the glue over the paper and then mixed the paint into some parts of the glue. I liked the shiny effect that I got from using the glue and I would like to use this more in my future works however I would have to experiment more as the glue dried with some air bubbles in it.