Final Project: More Process

 Please excuse the shiny wet paint. The bottom photo is a detail.

Final Project: More Process

 The white areas are gel transfers waiting to dry...the paper will be rubbed off and just the ink will remain over the paint.

 Detail of a collaged area next to gel transfers.

 More "old fashioned" collage.

Final Project: Process Photos

 This was the original unfinished painting I began working with. It's a stain painting on unprimed canvas to give the colors a soft bleeding effect. My first step is build up a richer, more solid surface so that the transfers would have somewhere to sit instead of bleeding right into the fibers of the canvas.

 Above is the piece with the first two layers of paint over the original. I'm trying to punch up the colors, using more primary hues blocked in with larger brush strokes. When I get enough activity going on the canvas then I will start to apply transfers and push and pull from there to accentuate certain areas and subdue others.

These are some of the digital pieces I will be working with as transfers. Some are more detailed and rich, others are simple with the assumption that they will combine with richer, more chaotic areas of painting.

Cyclical Nature of Things: Final

For the open project, I have been researching the paintings of Robert Rauschenberg (see below) and would like to use photoshop to make several digital pieces that I can integrate into a larger, painted, and collaged piece. I've posted a photo of an old unfinished painting I have with pieces of paper sewn onto it. I will use it as a starting point to build up layers of texture, paint and transfers of the digital pieces I make. I would like to continue with the floral imagery I started working with last project, but maybe with simpler images so that they will transfer more clearly.

Robert Rauschenberg:

The Cyclical Nature of Things: Progress

The Cyclical Nature of Things: Progress