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| It Is Finished- acrylic on 24 x 30" gallery wrapped canvas |
Although I've had this done for some months now it's taken time before Olivia and I were able to work on getting some photos of the completed piece. We did the best we could with the lighting and knowledge we have.
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| It Is Finished- acrylic on 24 x 30" gallery wrapped canvas |
Working on this has been a little unsettling. It was my second attempt at using insolation foam for texturing, (
Jan Sitts shares this in her book,
Texture, Colour, Feeling) I'd improved a little on my ability to control the sticky substance, not that you will ever have complete control when it comes to this stuff.
Maybe that set the course, but as you can see I created a kind of cross effect with the foam and this piece seemed to know how it wanted to be painted from the beginning. The cross section has a lot of detail, including gold leaf pieces, soft blending and these amazing lines and variances in tone. I tried three times to go with a more antique golden hue in the areas surrounding the cross but every time the painting seems to push until it was back into all the shades of red you see here. When I was done and laid the brush down all I could think was, 'it is finished.' It had named itself and our journey was complete.
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| It Is Finished Macro |
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| It Is Finished-macro |
