Happy Sunday !
We've had a lot of rain over the last week. It is not supposed to rain today, but it looks like it might still be cloudy all day. Boooooo ! .....for that ! I think it will probably still be a good day. I'm claiming that anyway, even though I have a solar powered body.
Here I am again with another practice piece inspired by the art of Nancy.Bell.Scott. I believe it will be the last direct study of a specific piece of hers (a photo of hers at the bottom)...but you really can't trust me exactly when I say this, because I am making this journey up as I go along and sometimes the agenda changes. Ok, I admit, there is really barely any agenda. 😄
I believe out of the 4, this is my favorite. I'm not sure why. Do I HAVE to know why??
I started by painting the edges of the canvas white and gluing on an old book page for the bottom layer.
Then I painted over the edges and bottom of the book page to add another piece of book page that I had previously torn and painted.
Once the second piece of book page was added, I added smudgings of black around the background white and edges of the aqua paper.
White strip of paper added and red orbs painted on.
Then I began to put in other details in the center and around the outer edges.
After adding a little paint in the center part, that's where I was at bedtime the night I first started this. I swished the leftover wet paint onto a coloring book page to start another "leftover" paper that will one day be a piece of collage paper later after I use it some more for more left over paint.
Some of my pieces are completed in one long evening, but this one took me parts of 3 evenings. I can't devote as much time to it on evenings where I need to work the next day. At the end of the second evening, I was at this point and here it was, waiting for me the next morning.
So that night I worked on it again ! I have been using paint and doodle pens for the black line details, but I'm pretty sure that the artist is using the India ink with some unknown to me tool.
I had previously bought some of these empty bottles with very tiny metal tips to use one day for something. I thought this might be it and I filled it with some black ink to try to use instead of my pins. The tip is really tiny.
Unfortunately as soon as I turned it upside down to test it on my palette plate, the ink just flowed right out without me pressing the bottle at all. Although it would still be usable for some abstract marks, you would have to work really fast to keep it from pooling in spots and it was too uncontrollable for what I needed so I found that this particular bottle would not work.
It did make for a neat artsy looking plate though.
So I went back to my pens and carried on. This is how it ended. I thought it turned out pretty fun.
Here it is at a small distance.
..... and here is her piece that I was using for the study.
Now a black and white version, just for the fun of it.
