............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... I've been thinking about two things-- layers and texture. On the purple Moonshell above, I scraped back through the paint and varnish, much like the drawings you do as a kid when you color on a sheet of paper, put black crayon over the whole thing and then draw through the black to expose the colors.
But I want more depth to work with, so I was talking with Carol about that, about plaster specifically, which would give a nice surface to play with, spatter, scrape back to the fiber, do as I like. I don't like art stores, I prefer to work with whatever I kind find close by, so I looked around to see if there was something I could mix with the gesso that would make it thick and give some texture.
Some sand I collected from a pile in the pasture behind the house produced a predictably grainy surface (top photo, right). For the whiter piece (top photo, left) I used some baby powder that's been sitting around the house waiting for someone to use it. I'm really excited about that one, because as you can see, it crackled when it dried, like a river-bed. Having grown up in New Orleans two blocks from the Mississipi River and walked the dry bed many times when the river was low, the crazed pattern of dried fine powder resonates with me. This material has definite potential.....
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