Little Art Testing

Okay, kind of jumping topics here, but a few weeks ago my art teacher brought a few 'sample' things to art.  This included molding paste, and paint that worked well with the molding paste.  My and me friend, Kylie, decided to test it out and do a collaborative piece of art.  We brainstormed a few ideas, while waiting for the gesso to dry on our newly stretched canvas, and came up with something we both liked the sound of.

 

Before we actually began to pain on our canvas, we just tested out the paste and a few of the colors on a plain sheet of paper.

We decided that the red, and blue blended really nicely together, and wanted to make that our background. We contemplated mixing the paint with the paste right away, or using the paste, and painting after.  In the end, we decided to mix it.

I suggested using a spreading tool as it would give a cool vintage looking texture. In the end, I thought the background looked like a kitchen wall in an old Greek movie, I really liked the way it turned out!

Next step was where the molding paste really came into play.  We used a tool most people use for oil paintings to make our center focus; our big flower in the middle.  To create this, we used large amounts of the plain white molding paste, and smeared it at different angles across the canvas.  I've done this once before with oil paint, so I was a little more familiar with it.

We then added a bit of yellow as a color pop, just to spice things up a bit!

Final verdict on molding paste:  I thought it was really interesting! I always wondered how artists add texture to there paintings, and now I know.  I would defiantly like to try an individual piece with molding paste something!  It had a really grainy texture, and dried very solid. I was impressed.