MAGAZINE GESSO IMAGES (TAKE 2)

 This technique is one I'm revisiting and was last done by some of the girls way back in 2011. I used fashion magazines for the images.You used to be able to pick up these magazines in the op shops but they are quite hard to find now unless you're prepared to fork out big $$$ to buy them at the newsagent. In this class, we'll be dry-brushing gesso over a magazine image and then repainting whatever areas you want to alter using watercolours or acrylic paints. You don't have to stick to realism, they can be as weird as you want. 😉

"Be creepy"


"Your coffin or mine"


"Shine brightly"
(Adam never looked so sparkly!)

"Not what they seem"
(I'm not sure if anyone will 'get' this one...
do you know what B.O.B. is? 😏)


"Dieting"

"Stronger"

Magazine Gesso Images

Using magazine images and altering them has been around for a while. It's a technique that I've taught before in my atc classes and there's nothing that scares the girls more than knowing they have to actually "draw"!!! Not hard to do though, you can stick fairly close to the imagery and simply change the colours or you can go all out and totally alter the picture. I'm a bit of a traditionalist and don't change things up much....yep, strange I know! Anyway, here's some samples.

"Potential side effects"...

"A true story"...

"For rent"... (yep, tacky huh!)

"Relative's"...

"Clue Deficit Disorder"...

More to come.....