POPPY MUSE PROCESS INFO

What We Did

  • Sourced references from: life, your own photography, and online – https://www.canva.com/, https://creativemarket.com/

  • Added 2 coats of acrylic paint to our canvas (our chosen base colour, considering that we may see some of the base colour), the day before, allowing at least 4 hours drying time in between (more time in Winter, less time in Summer).

  • Blocked in our bird silhouette.

  • Used straight thick acrylic paint and premixed our colours and added light moulding

    paste (no more than 50%) to our mixes, depending on the desired texture and relief

    desired.

  • Created a clean, open, and organised space to work in.

  • Laid out our palette knives and brushes to be able to see them easily.

  • Worked with our paint on a flat, easy to clean surface, and created pools of paint

    from dark to light on our palette.

  • Chose the most appropriate knives, brushes, tool to create our first shapes and

    continued this process until the end.

  • Practised our shapes on spare card, to test technique and colour combos.

  • Working from thinner to thick, beginning with a brush and then moving to the

    palette knife, working from dark to light, firstly blocking out each shape - always

    considering the overall light source of the image.

  • As we worked, continued to step back from our painting to assess our progress and

    our next steps.DO NOT OVERWORK!!! Less strokes are best with these kinds of

    paintings.

  • Kept our area and tools clean and organised as we worked.

  • When completed, let painting dry (flat) for at least 48hours, or longer in Winter.

  • Sealed with Matisse (oil based) satin or matt varnish – mix well prior

Note: Always read the instructions on all painting materials.

What We Used

  • Any good quality triple primed stretched canvas 300gsm or more. In this case

    we have used Luca Triple Primed Canvas, 350gsm 46 x 46cm with a deep

    return.

  • Matisse texture acrylic paints

  • Meeden acrylic paints

  • Matisse light modelling paste, and Matisse modelling paste

  • Matisse Australian Gum Structure Acrylic (for background)

  • Flat paint tray for colour mixing

  • Water bowl

  • Paper towels

  • Assorted palette knives, round and pointed (favourite brand for quality and

    selection – Art Spectrum)

  • Assorted brushes, fine, wedged and filbert (favourite brush brand Princeton)

  • Liquitex paddle brush for laying down the base colour

  • Assorted pencils, charcoal, and coloured pencils Art Suppliers

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