Tuesday, 29 November 2011
TECHNIQUES USING MATCHPOT PAINTS
I thought I would offer another couple of examples of using Matchpot paint backgrounds. These are a couple of older pieces of artwork from sketchbooks - the first piece has the dark brown undercoat brushed on thickly so the brush strokes are visible. A very thin top coat of duck-egg blue was added and lightly brushed over with an almost dry paint brush - it was lightly sanded with wire wool to give a grainy, wood effect.
This second piece has bubbles, which I discovered by accident! I painted one side of the paper with a red coat and then when dry I used a top coat of metallic gold (a specialist paint sample pot). I then went and painted the back of the page ready for the next piece of work, and I used a heat gun to speed up the drying process. By blowing heat on the back of the page it created these wonderful bubbles. I have used this technique since with normal Matchpot paints rather than the metallic and it works just as well.
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