The Rush to Finish

I figured I should go back and record the events leading up to my final show.

Not necessarily is order.

Goal from last semester was to make representational work but have it more personal. I also wanted to figure out how to paint impasto style. Lots of research on the web about acrylic impasto. Additives to use to make acrylic paint thicker.

Excited about trying this new style of painting.

Started working, painting my 3 nieces at my wedding gathering shells on the beach, I love this picture. I finish the under painting and then decide the thick paint wasn't working. The painting is quite large, 48 x 36 and the tools (brushes, knives) I have are making small strokes that don't seem to be helping me to show nice heavy thick paint.





Back to the Art store to try other additives and purchase the larges size brushes they have. More research about trying to find something to make the paint thicker.

I started sanding off the painting I had done. This turned out to be a disaster, sanding wasn't level so it started to affect the other areas of the painting. Frustrated. I turned the piece over and gessoed the back.

While that piece was drying, I started another image of a mother holding a baby. I like the abstract style but still not getting the results I want with the paint. At this point I'm out of a number of tubes and find myself back at the Art Store in Henrietta to purchase more paint and gesso boards.

Finished versions of paintings #1, #2, #3