🏖 Out to Sea

013 Out to Sea

This project started out life as going to be another song lyric, 'Love is like a grain of Sand' from Fleetwood Mac's 1982 song  'oh Diane'  

This was to be the background and in the foreground, a hand and a mixture of sand and hearts slipping through the fingers as the next line of the song implies.  However this background was far too good in my opinion to cover up with a hand.  So I am keeping it like this.  

The Fleetwood Mac lyric, or another, will return at some point when I maybe have a better vision to accompany it.

Good call I believe.

 

🖌Splodgy lines

008 Splodgy Lines

 After it had fully dried the tape was removed and this was the end result.  

 Another Experiment.  Small canvas Panel has been painted black and tape arranged in a pattern.

I then daubed Splodges of acrylic paint into the black painted sections that are exposed. Now I am going to swish and splurge it all about.  On YouTube someone made this look easy but I found as soon as the colour mixed it just became one mass of brown mess.

I think the secret here is not too much mixing or movement with the knife.  You want to keep as much original colour as possible.  But at times it felt like I was icing a cake!

🖌 Smile

006 Smile!

           

                       

In this small project I have drawn shapes onto a small panel and coloured them with some bright vibrant rainbow colours.

I then covered it over with Masking Tape and with a black sharpie pen I drew a design on top.  In this case I drew some bubble letters saying Smile! and then carefully cut round the design with a craft knife and removed the tape.  You can probable guess what the next step was.

I do love Rainbow Colours contrasting with black or silhouettes so here I went again with another experiment!

Once the Black paint was dry, I peeled off the rest of the tape and this was the finished piece.

                                

Tape Art 2

004 Tape Art 2

 

I was so pleased with the first one.  How bright the colours look against the Black background and the sharpness of the lines I wanted to have another go.

So I am reusing the other one of my old canvasses and started making the second in a set of modern art pictures.  All done in exactly the same way as the first.

After adding a few more random bits of tape I coloured it in with Acrylic Paints (adding a few extra colours this time).  This is it at the end of today, I pretty much spent the whole afternoon doing it.

With these tape pictures the fun bit is carefully peeling off the tape.  I will let it sit overnight before doing that bit.

So, I couldn't wait until morning, haha! 

Again, not too bad at all.  A little bit of bleed and Peel in places but again it's exactly as I expected it to be with probably about the same amount of work to do as the first one had.

Please Note though, this photo was taken just before 11pm and the lighting in the Conservatory was not at all good.  This photo was taken using the flash so the colours don't look as true as they would in daylight.

14 March 2021

Here is the finished piece after touching up all the bleed and Peel areas.  It is now complete and I will finish it off with a coat of Matt Acrylic Varnish.

Tape Art 1

 

003 Tape Art 1

I painted this canvas Black the other day and wasn't sure what to do with it so I stuck tape over it and started colouring in the gaps in with bright Acrylic paints.  I just went for it.

All segments painted.  Now for the big reveal.  Carefully peel off all the tape.

And this is exactly what I expected. 

Some of the Black has peeled off to reveal the original blue that was on this recycled canvas.  

And some of the colours had bled under the tape which I can also spend today putting right.  

But, this stage has gone much better than I expected.

After careful touching up and fixing this was the end result.