Working title: Seeing Tomorrow Risk
6 x 9.25 inches (15.25 x 23.5 cm) closed
Open spread approximately 12 x 9.25 inches (30.5 x 23.5 cm)
Facing Pages
Image #003 – Feather Against The Light
Acrylic
Image #004 – Searching Is Always Now
Acrylic, Ink & Watercolor
gracious! you did these while you were feeling flu-ey? wow.
ReplyDeleteThat feather one is SO vibey - I love it, however you did it, it's gorgeous. It really hums. It's like electric sherbet!!
And the other is cooling and calming by contrast. One to excite/incite...one to smooth and unruffle. And I like how you included the text into your picture and used it as a springboard too.
So nice.
thanks V.K.
ReplyDeletesometimes when i dont feel good i feel like trying something a little different. the process with the feather takes a little time (for layers of paint and mask - see below - to dry) and i hadnt used the process with acrylics much at all. so i learned a lot and have several adjustments i want to try in future pieces.
over all i like how it is working and what is happening which just makes me excited to do more.
it's a common process and simple. the stuff is called (a) liquid mask. a number of companies make it. and there are many ways to apply it and some variations on the mask itself.
essentially you apply liquid mask (or Friskit - sometimes it's called - which is one of the makers i believe) on blank paper if you want the white of the paper saved, or you can lay down layers of thin paint (think paint works best - but with textured paint there would be a different result that could work too).
when the paint layer is dry you apply the liquid mask over it where you want that layer saved - in this case the yellow was my first layer (next time i'll do more variation in that first layer - one adjustment i want to make). then you let the liquid mask dry.
when the liquid mask is dry you paint over it. you can keep repeating this process as much as you want basically. at some point when the paint is dry you use an ink eraser or your finger - and there are other things that work too - to peal the liquid mask off which has a rubbery consistency. that reveals the layer below that the mask was covering up when you painted your last layer of paint over it.
google liquid mask and you'll see lots of info or images using this technique in a lot of ways - many far more sophisticated than i have used it here.
these two images are facing each other. the feather was so hot and electric as you've said that i decided to contrast it all on the facing page. they relate in some ways with implied lines and some shapes and patterns but they differ in other ways. - exactly as you say - very opposite ways.
that green page had some gesso on it from when i first began the book. i liked keeping the printed phrase so i just added my own texts to go where i wanted and went on from there.
this book is starting out to be about risk - which is nice because i dont feel like everything has to be perfect. when i risk, some things work and some things dont - but i usually learn a lot either way. i like ahat and that will be fun - imo.
OMG, these are great. I didn't know you were playing with altered books, too. Why not? I love that these are facing pages which makes a nice spread. I'm just learning to use Frisket.
ReplyDeleteoh very very cool Wrick. I feel inspired in kind by your exploration and experimentation. That really is a layered event. (onions!) This sounds like a lot of fun....somewhat along the lines of doing gel transfers -- the staging process, and how far you can go with it (as far as you want to).
ReplyDeleteI like your emergent theme and that you've created a way for yourself to do it - awesome, Wrick. Way to support yourselves (wow, I wrote that? I think I'll let it stand but I am in no way implying anything derogatory by naming you plural).
aloha Kay
ReplyDeletethanks for visiting.
altho i began this Altered Book some time ago it's taken me a while to be able to play in an Altered Book the way i want to be able to play, so in some ways creating in Altered Books is recent for me.
Frisket is fun - there are a lot of ways to work with frisket so enjoy exploring with it.
Thanks again V.K.
ReplyDeletethe net is such a new world for the world - we are just beginning - still in that pioneering stage (imo) - to understand and explore how it may alter out world. for art one of those ways is the networking and inspiration that proceeds at a much faster rate than ever before between artists. it's a dynamic link to what is happening between artist world wide. that in itself is amazing.
in many ways i think that we each have many versions of ourselves. one of the concepts behind my 19 Planets - One World; we all have a variety of spins on ourself. sometimes there are a lot of "me-s" in me.