The Gallery forum: The process for the painting with an insert.
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| These are the steps I am taking for this 23x23 painting. It has an insert of the Casablanca lilies. This is a krappy pic of the drawing  I didnt expect to start this thread so the next step pix arent really great. The white areas around the inset are contact paper over the merged paint. I just added another layer of paint which is drying so I'll show that tomorrow.  When the new paint dries I will add more contact paper. It masks areas where I dont want paint to go. This is a multi step process and gives various values to the lily stems and leaves. The painting is worth a million dollars as it is now. LOL. My back aches so I am watching movies the rest of the day. |
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| So you use contact paper to mask?? Never thought of that, but I can see it would work. Does it impair the paper surface at all? Good grief, that would take forever to do, but yes, it is a good idea. I just learned something new! Thanks, J. |
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| The paint layer I last applied is dry enough to take a picture but not dry enough to lay on the next pieces of contact paper. As you can see the area is darker and I added salt for texture. I wont remove any contact paper until all the paint layers ( yet to be determined how many) are completely dry. If Contact paper is removed wet it has a tendancy to leave the gummy part on the painting. I preferr contact paper when masking large areas. I find masking fluid raises the paper surface when its pulled off. I rarely use fluid anymore. I am making bigger paintings and using the fluid would take too long. I did see someone who painted gardens of iris. She used gladwrap and tape to cover the largest areas and mask fluid for those frilly fringed iris edges. I will try to find her site.  |
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| O.K. I'm new to this. Is it waterpaints??? I love the area surrounding the square. love the colors... |
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| Yes, watercolor paints. I will paint the insert as a seperate painting. I am also working on a large tryptich. I have no idea what I an doing but I want to show seasons of the same subject, might be Daylilies. |
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| That is wonderful and such beautiful work. thank you for telling me. Love the delicate look of watercolors. |
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| Todays washes layer. I will dry and remove the masks to see what I have. Another photo when the masks are removed. I dont want the background any darker.Its killing me to wait for the piece to dry.I will do some drawings for the next piece while I wait. Maybe use a hair dryer to help it along.  |
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The contact paper mask is off. I will have to repair some of the edges that leaked. I'll go in with washes anyway to define the lilies. |
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This painting is going downhill fast. I just dont have a great response to it. On the other hand this is another painting that is moving well. I usually go to what pleases me so I work on this Ligularia painting more.  |
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| JoAnn, that is very pretty. I love it. |
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| I hate it when a painting starts downhilling. Most of the time it's because I got too dark too quickly, or too bright, or too something. But from here, I don't think all is lost, Jo Ann, I think you just need to put it away for awhile then get back to it. And then sometimes I back slide and cheat and add a wash of white acrylic over the yuck places, then hide it from myself for awhile. That helps. |
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| I agree Sharon. I am putting it away for awhile. I keep telling myself it will get better when I paint the image that is the white area now. At this point I think it got too dark. |
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| I made it darker in areas and like it better. I will start the middle  |
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| Better, more defined, yes! |
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Started the inner image |
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| Keep it light, keep it light, keep it light....♬♪♬ |
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| I agree the values need to be lighter and brighter ,crisp edges. |
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| Yes, exactly. The contrast with the outer painting will be stunning. I did something similar one time with irises, but instead of the square I did a circle and the flowers within the circle were larger than those on the outer border. Looked like seeing through a magnifying glass, but that wasn't my intention. Seems to me I gave it away..... I like the square much better. Way to go, Jo!! |
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| Need less to say I abandoned that painting and one other. Sometimes no matter how hard you try to fix something it gets worse. |
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| Rats, Jo Ann!! I was looking forward.... What's next?? |
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