Finished Painting

Here it is-
Integrated the photo transfer more into the painting, so it's not so "here it is, a photo transfer, stuck on the painting!"
Added pencil marks into the photo transfer, covered part of the other photo transfer with paint, added darker values onto the drawing as well as deep blue colored pencil. I'm pretty happy with it and excited to do more pieces with the same theme.

Skeleton Painting/ transfer

I saw this illustration of a skeleton in an old National Geographic, and knew I had to use it in an artwork. I used matt medium on the image side of the magazine and a piece of watercolor paper, used a brayer to evenly distribute the matt medium and waited for it to dry. I then used a damp paper towel to get the back of the magazine page peeled off and show the reversed image.

The skeleton drawing section is from life from the one in class- by the way, I'm so glad I got one for the art room! It's one of my favorite art supplies I purchased for my art classes! I used HB, 2B and 4B pencils and a tortillion to get the values.

The background is in acrylic, using burnt umber, titanium white, burnt sienna, yellow ochre and hooker's green. I first did a layer of flat paint to match the magazine background color. I then, while still wet, added darker accents of burnt sienna and burnt umber and mixed it. To add some visual interest, I added some hints of cadmium red. I also had experimented with painting on top of masking tape and removing it, to add some three dimensional quality to the artwork.

I think I may continue to work on this, integrating more of the drawing with the magazine.

Photographic Transfer using Matt Medium

Finally! A successful photo transfer onto watercolor paper.

Over the weekend, I experimented with several layers of matt medium onto the magazine photograph itself and peeling off the back over the weekend, but it was ripping the photograph. I finally stopped peeling and got a not-so- cool thin layer of the photograph, and it would have been just as easy to put modge podge on top of the image and putting it into a collage.

SO with this, I put four layers of matt medium, waited for it to dry, then put a layer of matt medium on the watercolor paper and a layer of matt medium on the magazine image. Brayered it, then waited it for dry. I then peeled off the back with a wet paper towel and my fingers, and voila!