Easy Breathing
72×72″
Acrylic and collage on recycled canvas
©2021 Lucinda Howe
Entry for Oversized category at SC State Fair 2021
After looking my large painting for a few days, I decided it was finished and signed it. I submitted it to the oversized category at the SC State Fair. Keep your fingers crossed that I get in. I’ll have to figure out the transportation once it’s accepted, but I must wait about three weeks for the notification.
I moved the large painting to another part of the house, and confronted the mess in my studio. Once I put things away and cleaned off my work surfaces, I took a coffee break to consider my next project.
My favorite coffee mug
I wanted to catch up on the class A Year of Gelatin Printing with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer that I’ve been ignoring for the last few weeks. This module uses a simple shape for exercises, so I chose my favorite coffee mug. The technique is painting on the gelatin plate with a brush and then pulling the print. Different types of acrylic paints vary in viscosity and drying time.
Original and ghost prints using heavy body acrylic paints
These prints are the original and the ghost of each. I used a 6×6” gelatin plate. The heavy body and fluid acrylic paints dry fast, so I had to slap the paint on. The Golden Open acrylics allow more time to blend colors and add details, but the prints need more drying time. It’s amazing to me how much difference the types of paint make in the results. But it’s all part of learning how to handle the medium and get the results I want.
Original prints and ghosts with Golden fluid and open paints
Now that my studio floor is full of drying prints, it’s time to have a cup of coffee and watch the paint dry.
6 Comments
Easy Breathing is spectacular, Cindy. You’ve outdone yourself!
Good luck with the painting for the fair. It’s a beautiful panel ! Like the coffee cup process too!
Congratulations on such a wonderful Fair entry! It’s been fascinating and fun to be able to watch this work come together. And I love the new print process!
Love your Fair Entry, wonderful
Gelli prints are great, too
Very nice…I’m sure the oversized piece will make it in the show and I love the coffee mug pieces. They remind me of a Van Gogh! You should put the 4 together and make a smaller piece for the fair…like an Andy Warhol thing. Keep up the great work!
I was wondering how big it really was. Thanks for the perspective snapshot. It looks great! So do the coffee mugs.