Brixham Harbor in Devon England (White Arcylic on Black Gesso - Drawing Done with a Dremel - Color Added with Oil Paint
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Milwaukee (My Home Town) Skyline at the Lake Front (Oil, Acrylic and Dremel)
The first picture is my draft of the final black, white and gold piece.
Geisha (I continued to experiment with alternate inks, paint, embossing powder and overprints - and finally came up with results that I am satisfied with)
I used an overlay paper that I made with a printing block of oriental letters. Gold embossing powder over white robed geisha Gold and black embossing powder on red robed geisha
Geisha (Enhanced) - I had some time this afternoon, so decided to just try some alternate media on the block - for the most part - this did not turn out well except that the block itself - with red acrylic ink, gold gesso and white opalescent ink on it turned out fascinating -- and I applied gold embossing to one of the prints (purple geisha) to her kimono but did not get a very impressive affect)
Setting Sail (Watercolor Prints on Plastic Overlays - a Three Step Process)j
The first step was to do a watercolor pencil drawing of just the boat - no backgtound; the second step was to do a watercolor pencil drawing of the background on a second sheet of paper; the third step was to cut out the boat from the boat drawing I did in step 1; I then copied the boat cut out on one piece of clear plastic overlay and I copied the background on a second piece of clear plastic over lay. For the fourth step, I laid the boat over lay on top of the background over lay.
Milwaukee (My Home Town) Skyline - Black Gesso on Canvas with Pastel and Sandpaper
I am not sure if this is a final work or not - I am in the process of reviewing a technique used by Paul Balmer, an Australian artist. He applies black paint to canvas and then draws in his image (using a cityscape) and then with a dremel (a power took that has a rotating disc head to sand or cut a surgace(he takes out the lines of his drawing leaving black canvas with the white canvas exposed from the action of the dremel on the canvas. I don't have a dremel, so I used sandpaper to expose the white canvas. Paul then paints a black layer over the cut canvas and then applies color to the under lying drawing that appears vaguely thru the second layer of black paint. At this point I am stumped since I am not sure my sandpaper lines are deep enough to withstand an additional layer of black paint - so that it shows thru slightly As with a lot of my art work - I may consider it done, temporarily - and then just think about it periodically over the next weeks or months and decide
Bamboo in Blue and Green) on Marble Abstraction)
I took the Marble Abstraction piece and superimposed construction paper and tissue paper to create the illusion of bamboo.