Showing posts with label markers. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Progression of a "graffiti-style" painting & collage on ungessoed canvas

I'm beginning my first canvas as part of Alisa Burke's online painting mixed-media course, "Graffiti Chic".
Itching to get started, I needed to finish a piece that was dominating my work space.  Although said piece is very close, it is still not completely finished, but I was able to move it off the work table so I could start PAINTING!  Woot Woot!
These images are of the base of the painting.
It is all about building layers.
Very loose and industrial.  I'm shooting for gritty layers of stuff found on and around an old building.


Once this dries I will start another.
Tomorrow I am going outside for some "outside-only" stuff.







I'm having a lot of fun with this loose, "swashbuckling" style of painting.  It is very good for me to loosen up!

Now, some paper is collaged to the surface, and more paint added: