Its only March almost April
Well its not July yet. These are the last of the December Christmas prints. I know it took me a while. I'm getting old moving a bit slow these days. I have spent the last few days editing these images. It took a bit longer then I hoped it would, but then again most things do.
There are quite a few images in this post and yes all where made on the 23rd of December 2014. Since they are prints its all about prep work, the printing goes relatively fast. Its the weeks of prep that takes so long. You must have paint that's ready to use, it must be the right thickness, not to thin not too thick. Sometimes you need some of the same color at different thicknesses. Also need many different colors and shades. I always try to use two or more shades of every color. Also Need several substrates to print on or off of depending upon what my plan is. In this case I needed many different substrates to print onto. They all have to be ready because acrylic paint dries very fast. I would like to try oil paints sometime. I have also thought about trying to add a slowing agent to the acrylic I however have not done so as of yet.
I like to experiment so as you can see from the other December 2014 posts I tried bubble wrap to print onto then print onto another substrate. I found it very interesting and visually appealing.
We will start with bubble wrap. These next few images are on bubble wrap.
The black background comes from scanning the bubble wrap with
a piece of black mat board on top of it.
Some of the images are the same just different
sides or different backgrounds.
These are scanned with a black background
The same images as above are below only
with a white background.
You can see they look much different.
Even though they are the same print
only scanned with different backgrounds.
You may also notice not everything turns out. You win some
and you lose some. Sometimes the images can be in used
for digital art. So I keep everything.
The images below are glass and bubble wrap.
While I only made one glass and bubble wrap
piece. There are four images front, back,
white and black backgrounds. So its the same
piece of art scanned 4 different times.
Below is a glass piece that was printed off
a bubble wrap plate. The above image the bubble wrap
and glass are fused by the acrylic paint.
Again its just one piece scanned two times.
Scanned once with a black background and
once with a white background.
That's all the glass piece I have for now.
However I do have some transparencies.
You guessed it, transparencies are below.
The transparencies below are made using a
transparent film and scanned
with a black background.
I like transparencies as they are cheaper
to make and easier to store. However they don't display,
are fragile and shiny. They
seem to be best for digital prints.
They can be displayed just a pain
to mount them. And can be a bit reflective.
These here are also quite small at 11 by 8.5 inch.
Lets move on to paper. Below are various paper
pieces print onto different types and colors of paper.
Again not everything turns out but I like most of
them, the last two are kind of rough.
Although I may be able to use them to
make some digital art later.
Below are on hardboard. The hardboard is coated
in a gesso primer goop I like to
call chunky monkey.
That give the texture and helps
seal the hardboard. Sometimes
the hardboard warps so I don't like to
use it, but sometimes different substrates
are needed. At least its very cheap.
Its Just not to fun to deal with.
Now we are on the last substrate, good
old fashion stretched canvas images
are below.
So what's your favorite substrate?
I hope that you enjoy my art
as much as I enjoyed creating it.
Feel free to comment or make suggestions.
Mo
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