Turns out part of my Process! series of posts includes pressing pause on the January creative exercise I’m working on to experiment with more gift wrap!
I turn to my still inexhaustible supply of 12 x 12″ sheets of tissue-like Dixie All-Purpose Food Wrap and get to work. I paint with a different color palette today—turquoise green, yellow deep, oxide black, and white gesso, but I use my artificial flower as a reference again to get movement and flow going in the early layers of a range of values of green.
I create my ante-penultimate and penultimate layers using white gesso expressed from small squeeze bottles, one with a thin applicator, the other a wider gauge.
Then I take stock—the ‘composition’ needs a little something. But what? With my hands itching to use some kind of marking tool, I remember a set of Faber-Castelle Gelatos, “bâtons de couleurs irisées,” given to me several years ago. Haven’t used them in ages. Pull out one labeled lunar and give it a try.
Yes! Just the right touch!
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