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Biker Buddy, by Mary Taitt
mixed media on Moleskine thin paper |
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Biker Buddy with the flu
mixed media on thin Moleskine paper |
I started the first one in markers, but I didn't have enough colors for shading so I added oil pastels and then I added acrylics. The second one is what I made from the bleed-through from the first. I'm not counting it as a page, because the paper is very thin and I wanted to make the bleed-through into something. I also thought it would be fun to make it into something somewhat different from the original. In the first painting, I was experimenting with unusual light sources and also concerned with flat (dead) colors--and how to make them live (add light).
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dead and living colors |
I chose colors that I thought looked particularly "dead" on their own, olive green, Indian red, flat grey and burnt umber. Some of the ways to add light included dry brush, adding other colors, glazing. I am not a fan, generally speaking, in my own work, anyway, of large areas of single blank dull colors.
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test prints
giraffes conversing
Mary Stebbins Taitt |
We recently put my mother-in-law, ML (for Mary Louise), in assisted living. She used to be a teacher. One of the books I inherited when she left her home is called printing for fun, and I read through it and discovered from printing techniques I hadn't heard of. One is printing with paper masters--not like mimeograph, but cutting and pasting masters with shapes and using them to print with. I decided to try it with textured papers and did my first two test prints in Mike's book. I then made a card and included the master, because as I discovered, paper masters do not last too long--they begin to wear out and disintegrate. It is only for fun and very small "runs."
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Pocket items: Sample card
paper master |
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sample prints
giraffes conversing (NOT in pocket) |
I included a scan of a few of the sample prints I made and you can see the disintegration of the paper. (although they are not in order). It was still a fun and relatively easy project and would probably be good with kids who have a short attention span anyway. Just cut out and glue the shapes, make a few prints and move on.
2 comments:
A great post Mary, I really like your energy and drive to create great unique art!
Thanks, John, I was playing with some unusual lighting.
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