Does anyone ever work in a variety of different media? (Separately, I mean; apart from other media not in the same piece.) I have always worked in collage, watercolors and acrylic paintings, partly because I like all three, partly because I learn from each one and can translate it into another. It also energizes me into working in new ways. Right now I have four new acrylic paintings of peppers. I know what you’re thinking. Peppers? But you do mostly landscape work, right? Yes. However, when an opportunity comes up, one goes with the flow. There is an artwalk in Lowell for the next few months and it went with the theme, ok? But I learned that I liked working with the abstractness of the shapes and I liked fooling around with wild, unfamiliar color combinations and yes, even gradations of those combinations (I mainly work in flat colors juxtaposed next to the same.) Now I can take this experience and perhaps translate it into watercolors or collage and see where it takes me.
Marita McVeigh
yes, I enjoy a variety of media from oil painting, acrylic, collage, watercolor, printmaking, photography. Now I’ve also learned digital art with photoshop to add to the list! Also I love using modeling paste to add texture. Depends on my mood at the time I start something new as to what I will use. Mostly my favs are oil and pastel.
brettonarts
Marita, Thanks for your comment. I have done wome work with photoshop as well. But I’ve always wanted to try modeling paste. What kind of textures do you get with it? Also, do you mix it into the paint or do you apply it ontop of the painting?
-Deb
Marita McVeigh
you can do so many different things with the paste. It is great. One thing you can do is apply the paste and then add texture by many means, dabbing using palette knife, end of paintbrush, anything. Another great thing you can do is to put some paste on and then add things to it, small things like little beads or string or any kind of small found objects. Let it harden and then paint it over with white acrylic paint. Then you can paint colors on top. You can layer glazes of color and they can come out with very interesting effects. Use acrylic paints with acrylic gloss medium for the glaze effect. you can do a drawing and then use different textures in each part of the drawing for special effects. Basically the sky is the limit to what you r imagination can do with it!
UtaM
Yes, I too enjoy diferent mediums from collage to acrylics, have done some oil painting, charcoal drawings, photography etc etc. I am also a potter and make things in clay. I’m on the verge of trying textiles next and want to try some assemblage too. I think it keeps your work fresh and alive if you continue to try new things and add to your skills. Life’s just too short to do it all. Might need 10 lifetimes :)