Tuesday, January 5, 2010

PAINTING PROJECT -part 5

(Continued from yesterday)

This step is very subtle and almost unnoticeable, but if you compare to the picture in the last post you can see a slight difference. I could have stopped at the previous step, but I felt like aging this painting would look good. I mixed 1 part GOLDEN paint with 3 parts water to make a gold wash. I'm not talking about metallic gold paint. I mean a yellowish brown color.

I used a big house painting brush and slapped it over the entire painting. Some places didn't need as much so after it dried a bit I wiped some back off with a damp paper towel to suit my eye. I like doing this because it ties everything together into a sort of color family. I liked the aqua-marine blueish green color the background became. That seems more piratey to me.

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I gave everything a clear coat with Krylon (tm) Crystal Clear gloss acrylic spray to protect it. Clear-coating it makes the colors seem deeper and richer, very much like an oil painting.

That's it for this job. Now I will mail him away and never see him again. It's like mailing away my child. The only difference is this child doesn't smart-mouth me or break my things, so it's even sadder to say goodbye. sniff...

5 comments:

  1. That gold wash REALLY does set it all off nicely Keith. Another fine KW masterpiece!
    best,
    r/e

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  2. I bet people would have acted like you were crazy back in the old days if you said you wanted to make your new painting look old and dirty.

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