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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: image transfer tests

Day 4 & 5 of the #The21dayProject

I watched a video by Laly Mille, my favorite mixed media artist, on how she uses matte gel medium to do image transfers.

And tried out the process with some papers I have as a test for possible layers on the big canvas.

1. Test supplies

2. Test canvas board with acrylic paint as first layer

3. Papers glued face down then heat gunned to dry because I’m impatient like that.

4. Images transfers successful. Took a few tries to get all the paper off (used an old plastic gift card because I couldn’t stand the squishy screechy noise the sponge made) but I like what I see and am going to try both the origami paper and the printed copy paper on the big canvas.

Next will be image transfer on the big canvas and “road” work.

If you want to follow just this art project, you can check out the #mountainroadartwork hashtag.

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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: spray fixative

Day 3 of the #The21dayProject

My canvas on my little easel* and the can of fixative. It doesn’t say “workable fixative” but I have been assured by multiple articles and videos that it is.

This is my first time using a fixative of any kind on my art so we’ll see how it goes.

Sprayed 3 coats with drying time in between each one. Currently let it sit in the garage with the side door open for a cross breeze because that aerosol is stinky stuff.

Next will be moar layers!!!!

• if I attempt another large canvas I’m definitely buying a standing easel because this little tabletop guy is precarious with a substrate this large.

If you want to follow just this art project, you can check out the #mountainroadartwork hashtag.

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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: stop messing with it and let it dry overnight

End of Day 2 of #The21dayProject

1. How this evening ‘s session ended

2. How this evening’s session started - Distress Ink on all mountains

3. Splatter, your mixed media frenemy: adds awesome texture, goes where you don’t want it to, turns all clothing into paint clothing

4. The color you decided to use when swatching …. that looks too pink on the actual canvas surrounded by the other colors

5. The color you didn’t pick when swatching because it was too orange that now is the one that looks good on the canvas

6. Happy with dragon road

7. Don’t like the sky

8. Happyish with the sky

Next will be applying spray workable fixative because 80% of this thing is now covered in water-reactive material, so if I try and do anything with liquid, it will move and change and yeah, don’t want that to happen.

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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: more black edges and ink …. Which takes FOREVER to dry 🤣

Also …. when you keep breaking the regular All Black pencil so you bring out the big gun.

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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: Distress Ink

Day 1 of #The21dayProject to finish this canvas.

Started experimenting on the hills.

1. Outline edge with a Stabilo All Black. Love this pencil. It lays down a rich black that activates with water.

2. Add drops of Distress Ink.

3. Spritz with water to dilute

4. Tap/move ink around with paper towel. Stop Messing with It Even Though It Looks Like A Mess So It Can Dry.

5. Come back an hour later to admire this awesome layer of color you created.

Next will be applying this same process to the rest of the hills, and on the closer hills, more than once since foreground objects are darker than background objects because of atmospheric perspective - not that this is in any way a realistic landscape, but applying concepts like that will help create the illusion of depth.

If you want to follow just this art project, you can check out the #mountainroadartwork hashtag.

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Anyone interested in a 21 day art project?

This art challenge is from the folks who do the yearly 100 Day Project and starts on Sept. 17th - https://the100dayproject.substack.com/p/the21dayproject-next-steps

I’ve reached the point on my 24” x 30” canvas that I’m getting fearful of ‘messing it up’ (because IRL doesn’t have that handy multiple Undo function of digital art), so I’m going to try and do something daily as part of this 21 Day Project to make sure my #mountainroadartwork gets finished.

You could do something new, or use this as a way to finish something that’s fallen by the wayside.

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