GESSO CRACKLE

The technique for this fortnight I've called "Gesso Crackle".   It was purely an accidental discovery while I was doing another technique previously.  It uses Gesso (duh!), and the wonderful Golden Paints in the Fluids.  You need the Golden fluids for this technique, not the heavy body ones as they are too stiff.   Just don't go there okay?   lol

"Attack"...

"Bite Me"...

"Failure"...

 "What you see"...

This next one is just a quickie I made for my son's birthday.   Rather than make a card for him I thought I'd do an atc so he can stick it on his fridge next to the ones I've made for my daughter-in-law Elice.   As we've just bought a still, thought it was relevant.    Yes, that's a page from his old calculus book!

Finally, a last atc from the previous technique, Mini Collage with paint.

"Stargazer"...

Mini Collage & Paint

The first set of classes went off without a hitch in the new venue, the Jim Satchell Community Centre in Dianella.  The next technique that I'll be teaching is Mini Collage & Paint, Saturday's class is this week, the 12th of May and Tuesday's class is the 15th of May.  I think the girls that love playing with paint and colour will enjoy this week's technique....mini collage & paint.   It's mini collage because we're working on the atc size, 2-1/2" x 3-1/2".....kinda small so you can't overfill it like you would if you were doing a 12" x 12" canvas!    Of course I'll be using my Golden Paints but Jo Sonja's will work as well.  I just love Golden's because they are so pigment rich and you don't need much to get great depth of colour.   Natalie from Artability has some great Golden Paints for sale on the web-site as well as some other fantastic goodies - check it out!  Some samples....

"Family"...

"Melancholy"...

"Entwined"...

More samples to follow after Saturday's class.