April 2009 archive

48 Birds #5 Darling Sparrow

I had read about some gesso resist techniques and wanted to try them.  The author, whose article appeared in a magazine called “Apprentice Building Blocks” from Somerset, neglected to mention whether one had to  paint the background with paint before doing the gesso resist, or whether you were to just paint the gesso on plain …

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48 Birds #4: The Sparrow Looks Up

For this piece, as with the previous one, I was hoping for a faint scratchy surface texture, like a print from a scratched negative or an etching.  My attempts to do this with beeswax were messy and unsatisfactory, so I decided to use the slight-resist properties of gesso to do the same thing. I had …

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