131 - Pamela Caughey - Large Scale ACRYLIC and Mixed Media Abstract - Personal Voice

hi everyone this is pam coy i'm going to be working on canvas today it's a staple to my wall and i actually um it's linen and i put two coats of acrylic gesso on it so it's kind of rough right now that's because it's so absorbent and then i just taped off the edges because i'm going to try and most likely stretch it after it's all done so i thought i would get started here a lot of this content will be in the watch learn girl library as i proceed through the middle and the end stages but in this very first part it's play and so i like to share that with everybody so here we go i'm going to start out with a really nice bright yellow just as an under painting kind of dilute that out just a little bit with my acrylic airbrush medium instead of water it's a nice long handled brush i haven't really decided on my palette yet i'm just going to kind of wing it and see what i feel like i haven't added any marks yet either but i kind of want to just get some of this white covered i'm not sure i'm going to cover all of it i just want to get kind of this central shape going just [Music] it's a gigantic paint scraper here [Music] [Music] so so just trying to get some thicker paint on there and the orange and the yellow are going to mix however they want to so there's light pressure where there's almost no paint at all or i can press harder just getting rid of that white is kind of nice right now i might leave little parts of white but i don't know how much just a little it's also kind of a nice mark making tool there but i can also just kind of drag it down like this it's an interesting shapes it's all this is all pretty much wet into wet so um but here i like that shape so that might actually be a monoprint [Applause] let's try this if i barely touch it i get marks like this which is kind of different i can certainly transfer that elsewhere [Applause] if i press harder then you know kicks up more paint when you get like this so change directions so this is the color i'm mixing it doesn't look like much it's just a yellowish gray and it has some cadmium red in it so i wouldn't really say that it's going very orange i just want something that's not gonna um yeah the value is fine just trying to get a feel for the texture of the canvas and see how the paint glides it's not sinking in anymore because i've got that yellow paint down but originally the gesso was very uh it was really absorbing the paint i noticed that right away it was like a sponge so i really had to have a lot of that yellow paint once you get the gesso covered up though it's not quite as much like a sponge anymore this is an acrylic 15 millimeter water-based i'm trying to find the brand here i think these are montana markers but anyways um you can refill these and they're just markers so i'm going to just try it this is black so it's just out of curiosity see how this goes there's just so much space here and so much area to cover so i kind of just want to get something going so you have to slow down to get the right edge that you want but these are nice i like these first time i've used these um still a little bit wet here so i'm going to stay away from that just using the edge it's got like this chisel okay i love to use this long painters guide this is the extra long one it's like two feet long um you can find these at any hardware store and i've just seen that i it's not even long enough so um here's this really gigantic uh yardstick it's six feet long i use this a lot for large scale work again your tools have to really scale up when you work on this size and this isn't even that large i'm really not liking anything that's happening here but that's normal i'm still in the play stage and having really fun a lot of fun so what am i going to do now what i have is pretty much mid-tone i've got some really nice darks i have just a little bit of white left here i did that kind of intentionally this is a piece of paint transfer i stuck this on yesterday see if i can get it off i was just really experimenting to see how well that would transfer because um as you can see or maybe you can't see but this is a very nice rectangular shape and um i like that and again that was a paint transfer so if you haven't taken my acrylic technique course that's how i show you how to do that but i like that i like the fact that i can get a really nice shape and i cut it out of this this is this was the paint transfer sheet this was parchment paper paint and i just cut out the shape you know out of here okay this is just all pretty free form trying to get some significantly thicker paint on here just to see if i can how much paint i have to get on here to get away from this highly textured you know it's a woven fabric this canvas so how much paint do i have to get on here before i don't really feel that texture anymore just out of curiosity because i not sure how much i like that but i think part of it is just getting used to it what size is the brush this is a number 12 and it's called a filbert i like using filberts they have kind of a rounded top so they don't have a flat top and they're not around so they just um they seem to hold a lot of paint that's what i like so i've kind of started to make a circle here and it's kind of starting to drip down here which i kind of like but i'm going to just kind of keep going here i'm not going to try and make just circles even with a filbert brush you can make a corner which would be easier with a flat brush but you can do it you know if you know what you want just the way that you handle the brush made these little dots so i'm going to kind of bring them out a little bit not not all of them i think just those and make some marks here trying to vary the kinds of lines thick and thin [Music] this looks very gray looks like a greenish gray in the container but then with um the backdrop being kind of orange it does that the gray kind of goes it takes on a bluish hue which is called simultaneous contrast meaning that a color any color is influenced by what's around it so if there's a lot of orange and warm a gray is going to take on that complement to look like the compliment just so fascinating so it makes color very tricky but very interesting too notice how these don't show up very well because they are so close in value to what's behind it very low contrast so these are low contrast this is high contrast between black and yellow this is in the in the middle so the more you can see it the higher the contrast it is and then the less you can see it the lower the contrast it is okay i've used about all of that and here's a thin line over a thicker line here's a rectilinear shape because there's so many curvilinear shapes i think the next thing i'll do on it is a glaze but i'm going to let this dry overnight because i don't want to rush it and so i guess that's the end of today on this painting [Music] you

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Length: 15min 28sec (928 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 31 2021