I have been experimenting with painting with thick paint, I brought some cake decorating piping tips to experiment with. I have been trying different textures as well as different sizes. As I don’t have any mediums to thicken my paint, I did some research and found that you can mix flour to thicken up the paint and to decrease the drying time. I found this created an interesting effect, making the paint have more texture which I liked. It also made it easier to pipe as it held the shape of the piping tip better.
I have been working on backgrounds to paint over or to cut out of. I’ve used the scraping technique from my verb paintings to create texture in the backgrounds. I experimented with using white paint to scrape, In hopes that the patterns and lines would not be super visible until you look closer or when you paint over them. I painted over these with coloured ink to sit in the creases of the paint. I have also painted some lines with watercolour, Inspired by the artist Silvia Bächli. I am hoping to cut shapes out of these paintings and layer them together. I have also brought through the fungi shapes from my drawings, using a few different techniques and experimenting with distorting the circle patterns. I enjoyed scraping these circular shapes into the impasto paint.