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After commenting in another thread about how I don't like using a paint brush - here's my first (and likely only) attempt with using a paint brush!
I live in a bungalow built in 1950, and it still has charming features from those long-ago days, like a little pass-through door in the kitchen where the milkman could leave stuff, and also a telephone niche in the hallway.
I thought about painting a phone from that era into the niche, so this is from that effort. It's in my Canson XL mixed media sketchbook, 11x14". I thought I'd help the thin paper accept acrylic paint if I put down a layer of gesso first. All that did was wrinkle the damn page and make the painting harder.
It also yellowed a bit.
I used Golden Open acrylics - I like them because they are slow-drying, which feels right to me because I'm exceedingly slow.
Here are the sketches and a wip image or two. I'm okay with how it turned out, but I don't think I'll be painting it into the niche. Too much work and I'm too unsure of myself.
Thanks for looking!
I live in a bungalow built in 1950, and it still has charming features from those long-ago days, like a little pass-through door in the kitchen where the milkman could leave stuff, and also a telephone niche in the hallway.
I thought about painting a phone from that era into the niche, so this is from that effort. It's in my Canson XL mixed media sketchbook, 11x14". I thought I'd help the thin paper accept acrylic paint if I put down a layer of gesso first. All that did was wrinkle the damn page and make the painting harder.
I used Golden Open acrylics - I like them because they are slow-drying, which feels right to me because I'm exceedingly slow.
Here are the sketches and a wip image or two. I'm okay with how it turned out, but I don't think I'll be painting it into the niche. Too much work and I'm too unsure of myself.
Thanks for looking!