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Kate loves creating

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Snow

I have been painting with a acrylics for about a year now. I have struggled with them looking too flat and plastic, but I loved how you could build them up in layers and not wait very long for them to dry like oils. But I still wasn't happy with my results. I started to add alcohol inks and gouache on the top layers to get more richness. That was better. I also love watercolors and missed having the watermark transparent strokes showing. What to do....well, with this painting, I started off creating the shadows by applying washes of acrylics. I saw the lovely watermarks and the transparency I loved. But I knew I had to create the highlights so my next step was to use the acrylics, OPEN ACRYLICS (love them)! I didn't want to cover up the richness of the acrylic washed shadows. Somehow mixing them with white made them dead so I kept that separated. As I applied the last layers I did have to do some mixing with the lights and the shadows, but not altogther. I think I am figuring this out for myself. Oh, and of course, I had to add my fabric pieces and sewed them with human hair for the final touch. Thanks for looking and reading about my process. Till next time.....