Happy Friday to all of my friends out there! Autumn has finally come to Morgantown and I am enjoying the sunshine as I work in my studio. I completed another painting this week (yippee!!!), and I'm excited to share it with you. It is a mixed media painting that I've worked in collage and acrylic paints. I have really loved painting on a big canvas! I hope the bright colors will add a little happiness to your day.
Sunflowers With Fruit
Mixed Media On Canvas
30" x 40"
This is how it looked in the early stages. I usually sketch the composition in light, colored charcoal pencil. I like Derwent Tinted Charcoal pencils. If I need to make adjustments while I'm drawing, I can use a light mister to spray the charcoal and wipe it away. I then mix golden fluid acrylic with matte medium to further thin it out, and paint in the lines for the major structures. I like to collage the canvas to give texture to the work and occasionally allow it to peak through the paint.
Here it is a bit further along in the process. You also get to see just how messy the floor of my studio gets in the middle of a painting!
Breakfast With Tulips
Mixed Media On Canvas
36" x 36"
Last week, I posted photos of the work I have been doing over the past year. This is one of the paintings from that post. If you missed that post and would like to see more, click here. Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! I will be linking this post to Paint Party Friday and Pink Saturday (Just click on the icon in my right sidebar).
Until next time,
