I found this YouTube video, and you may or may not like the abstract, but the materials used are worth looking at. I thought you might like a little demo on how to put together a faux floating frame. For some reason it looks easier than the real way to make floaters.
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Since every Mixed Media Artist likes to incorporate “Mixed Media” into their work. I’m no different, punching my paintings with just about anything I can think of. It could be metal, threads, papers, etc.
I’ve been working on deli wrap papers to paint, stamp on, cut up, tear up, and anything else I could think of. It’s the kind of prep work that numbs your mind, but has to be done.
It isn’t finished yet, but the inspiration came from a few samples of fabric I found, and a pile of yarn.
Fabric samples
What to do with the yarn? Well I was thinking of making the yarn serve as texture….. I guess I have a problem with adding things to make texture. I will try it, but at the moment I couldn’t tell you exactly where to put it, or what painting to use it on.
Oh so much fun, but so little time!
More cards.
After having a week I could have easily done without, I’m putting more effort into painting in my studio. I need the distraction, and it helps to work with paints., cards, or anything else I can get my hands on.
I’m still working on the abstract, only it has morphed into something completely different, and ever-changing. Maybe I’m not cut out for abstract!
unfinished
I’m also working on an experiment!
I decided to take a small board and at the bottom are gauze mountains, up above, stormy clouds. This had been in the making for the last week. The next step will be to adjust the clouds. Clouds are always a work in progress since there isn’t a bad cloud, just one we think is bad!
Clouds
Where are they going….Who knows…..but they are going……it will be a surprise to us all.
Just wait and see!
Lady in a hat.
Did you ever just start fooling around with an idea, and it turned out totally opposite of what you had planned? That is exactly what happened to me. I started with a 1/4 sheet of Yupo paper, and coated one side with clear matt medium. The matt medium coats the surface of Yupo which is actually a plastic sheet, not paper at all. I tried painting on it when I worked with water colors, and never could get it to where I loved using it. So why not try it with acrylics? Everyone said, coat it with a medium so the acrylic paint will stick. In reality I coated a plastic sheet with a plastic medium. I’m not really sure why I had to do that.
Now that the Yupo is coated, eliminating the spontaneity of the clean plastic surface. I shot myself in the foot that time. Would this really stick better with a coating of medium, maybe but I haven’t tested the uncoated Yupo to find out.
Before I knew what was happening…….I sketched out a lady on a couch.
What was I thinking?
Someone has to keep an eye on me because I keep slipping back into reality. Isn’t it bad enough we have to live in reality, now I have to spend all my creative time in reality also! I do not like to paint realism, that’s what cameras are for. I like to live, and paint in an abstract world.
Think abstract, breathe abstract, and paint abstract!
It’s interesting how you think your going one direction, and the next thing you know you’ve made a severe right turn, and there it is…….
something least expected!
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Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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