Adventure Time!
Yesterday I started what I now believe will become a grand paint adventure. I’m talking gorgeous colors – can you see?!
Anxious to start working with Finnabair’s new line of Art Alchemy Impasto paints, I started loading a 12″ x 12″ primed canvas with five of the six newly arrived Impasto paints. I didn’t even use that palette you see at the top of this image – I squeezed the paint from the tube onto the canvas and started working it together, first with my brush and then with my finger. It’s a highly pigmented heavy bodied paint which means that it’s not only beautiful but it is also thick and easy to work with. No runny paint here, you can even use your actual brush strokes as part of your design since it almost has the consistency of light modeling paste. Spray a bit of water on the paint and you can extend its coverage.
Before painting, I covered the canvas with texture paste utilizing several randomly placed stencils. I had no idea how effective that would be as I had not yet realized just how easily my finger could transform paints applied side by side into detailed texture.
These gorgeous colors are bright for my Assemblage Canvas work but that first coat is only the beginning. I plan to add hundreds of items. How? Well, see… that’s why I’m calling it an adventure. I don’t yet know! I’m taking it step by step and already have painted dozens of little pieces to gradually work in with dozens of bronze items. And to prepare for that step, I spritzed the entire canvas with Lindy’s Starburst Grab a Guy Gold spray. I use a wide array of Lindy’s spritzes extensively in my work and Grab a Guy has to be my favorite.
Much of this background will eventually be covered by other elements but that’s the nature of Assemblage art work. There are at least a half dozen layers making up each of my backgrounds – it’s all about building depth for the final product.
This Impasto paint line represents (to the best of my knowledge) Finnabair’s entry into selling non-metallic paint. She has an impressive selection of metallic paints, powders, and waxes – all ones I use heavily when creating metallic works. My favorite non-metallic paint remains DecoArt’s Media Fluid Acrylics but these Impasto paints will definitely have their place in my future work. They are simply a wonderful alternative for the Mixed Media or Assemblage artist.
Vicky