Ive been busy working on my latest Poppy Quartet painting this week. you can see the different stages that it goes through as it develops.
It gets tricky balancing 4 canvas on my easel at times!
I have done the base coats in various shades of red, then today I added the texturizing medium with a knife-allowed to dry and painted over that with some thin glazes of acrylic paint, it does not show up well in the photos but this version has more texture in it than any of my previous ones.
This is as far as Ive got-the layers of paint have been built up over the past few days.
Tomorrow it will have another 10 or 12 thin glazes of acrylic , then the raised textured areas will have a special gold dust brushed on to give a beautiful shimmer that will catch the light when viewed at different angles, the next stage will be the melted wax centre.That is a quite difficult stage to do-quite tedious but well worth the effort-then on Friday it will have 3 coats of varnish to protect it and it will be ready in time for the Ludlow Medieval fair at the weekend!-At least thats the plan!
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