Painting of the week: Reaching Out
"Reaching out, I surrender"
The lines that captured my heart from the worship song "Touch the Sky" by Hillsong United
Materials and tools:
- Acrylic Paint
- Water
- Posca Pens
- Clear Epoxy Resin
- 16"x20" Canvas
- Oil Paint
Background
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
Process
I prepared the materials and the canvas with my painting.
I then outlined the figure I want to paint using oil paint.
I used a picture of my hand as a reference :
Then I applied white acrylic for base color and let it dry.
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.
I used black and white to make a neutral feels on my painting because the background is colourful and lively.
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.
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.
Here's the detailed one.
Then I mixed the resin to be poured on my canvas.
I used Easy Cast Clear Epoxy Resin. I bought this at Deovir.
And....
It's done
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!
thank you :)
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Wow, thank you so much for appreciating my post :)
hi@aalagenesis nice picture
thanks
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 :-)
Nice ate.
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.
Thank you !
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