Pacific Reef- mixed media art

I’ve been a little obsessed with Emerald Green lately.  I think it’s the coming onset of Spring- it can’t come soon enough for me!  The trees in North Carolina are about to burst into life- I’m waiting with bated breath and working with green in my studio.

The technique I used for this canvas is quickly becoming one of my favorite ways of painting with acrylics.  It makes such unique backgrounds for my mixed media art.  I start with a dry canvas and add a few random globs of paint in whatever colors I’ve chosen.  I will usually overlap two or three of the colors so they’ll run together, and then I get my spray bottle out and go crazy.  I make sure the entire canvas is wet and concentrate a few sprays over the globs of paint.  Sometimes I’ll smear them a little with my finger to spread a bit more color if I need to.  I love to see how different colors and brands of paint will blend together.  I’m working on a video of this technique, too.  It’s my first video, so I don’t know how long it will take- hopefully I can get it done in a week or so instead of a month or two.  We’ll see.

Of course, adding my paper pieces is what really makes these pieces interesting.  It’s so fun to see a piece come alive.  It’s almost as if my hand is being directed on where each piece should be placed, and the results are always awesome.