Painting of the week: Reaching Out

in #elegance6 years ago

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"Reaching out, I surrender"

The lines that captured my heart from the worship song "Touch the Sky" by Hillsong United

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Materials and tools:

  • Acrylic Paint
  • Water
  • Posca Pens
  • Clear Epoxy Resin
  • 16"x20" Canvas
  • Oil Paint

Background

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This is the revision and continuation of my acrylic pour painting last time. If you want to take a tour on that process you can go to this link : https://steemit.com/art/@aalagenesis/i-found-my-new-favorite-color-on-pour-painting

I used my acrylic painting I did last time as a background for my new artwork.

I am practicing to paint hand figures. This is one of the paintings I'm proposed to display to our upcoming exhibit at Manhattan Row, Araneta, Quezon City on August 26, 2018

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Process

I prepared the materials and the canvas with my painting.

I then outlined the figure I want to paint using oil paint.

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I used a picture of my hand as a reference :

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Then I applied white acrylic for base color and let it dry.

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here's the base paint of the hand

Now is the hard part for me, making a hand figure using oil. I'm still struggling to use it but I want to pursue this so I took this as an opportunity to practice and practice.

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I used black and white to make a neutral feels on my painting because the background is colourful and lively.

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Part by part and slowly, I smudge the parts of the hands to smoothen the surface.

It took me almost 4 sessions to finish the hand.

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I thought that this would be enough but something's missing. It felt like so blank. So I decided to buy resin and white and gold pen for details.

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Here's the detailed one.

Then I mixed the resin to be poured on my canvas.

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I used Easy Cast Clear Epoxy Resin. I bought this at Deovir.

And....

It's done
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I just need to let it cured for one day.

I am thinking of adding more detail before my deadline.

Thank you for dropping by

Have a nice day

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The gold and white pens you used added some great accents. I also really like how the hand itself has a relatively plain section of the canvas to inhabit, with some fine swirls above it. Cool piece!

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Wow, thank you so much for appreciating my post :)

hi@aalagenesis nice picture

Looks a bit surreal, but i like the colors :-) up for that mate !

My wife also likes painting, but she does always painting by numbers :-) , so your picture is another level :-)

Thank you so much, it's hard for me to make colorful ones, but it happened here.

I hope to see your wife's painting too!
Painting by numbers is what I hate because i can't organize well

Ah okay :-) its a little longer ago since i posted that. Here we go:

https://steemit.com/mittwochsquickie/@avizor/mittwochsquickie-einfach-mal-im-urlaub-entspannen

... this was an article about the topic relaxation. She does it to calm down.

No advertise on me on this point :-) but you liked to see :-)

Thank you Miss Imma <3


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Thank you for always supporting my posts

The hand stands our from all that is going on in the background which is beautiful. I love the colors you used for it too.

The time you spent making it sure did pay off!

Thank you so much :D

Very nice. I do agree that it was lacking before applying the gold and resin. You did do very well with the hand using acrylic. I understand it is a harder medium to create life-like images with, but yours appears very well done.

Hello that is a beautiful painting i really like the colors. It is pretty cool that you show us all the steps to create this art and i really like the yellow string going around the hannd it gives a nice effect and link to the rest of the painting:)

Brilliantly done and expressed. I love seeing the steps, and how a work of art progresses. Thanks for sharing

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