Today on
Seth Apter's blog the fourteen gallery artists from section three of
The Mixed-Media Artist, Seth's latest book, are being introduced. I have three pieces in this book and I thought it would be fun to show you the steps that I took to create
Old and New Friends Meet, the piece that I created for the book. The prompt for
Friends was Imaginary Worlds. I am so very pleased to have been asked to be included in Seth's book. If you have not seen it yet, it is a treat! Thanks Seth for asking me to contribute.
I used matte medium to adhere pieces of newspaper to the substrate in the first step. Then I brayered a layer of gesso over the substrate.
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step 1 |
In step 2, I added paint using rainbow colors. As you can see texture is now coming through from step 1.
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step 2 |
Since I was honoring four great 20th century artists I wanted to give a flavor of their work in my piece. I create gel skins transfers using gloss gel medium.
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step 3 |
After four gloss gel medium coats and once the skin is dry, I submerged the skin in water to wet the paper fibers.
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step 4 |
In step 5 the rubbing off of the paper fibers begins.
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step 5 |
Step 6 is a completed gel skin for the background. I completed several different gel skins to represent four artists' work: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol.
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step 6 |
In step 7, I adhered the gel skins to the painted background.
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step 7 |
Another layer of gesso was added to the work in step 8.
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step 8 |
I added a glaze over the gessoed layer and then added the decapitated bodies of Rauschenberg, Johns, Haring, and Warhol.
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step 9 |
Because Donatello, Caravaggio, Michelangelo and da Vinci are using time travel to visit the 20th century artists their heads were added to the bodies of the other artists. Finally, I sprayed slide covers with a black gloss and attached the covers to the artists.
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step 10 |