Monday, September 3, 2012

Watery World - on TerraSkin

This painting wins the prize for the most fun to paint.  I've always loved to paint Koi - which you know if you've been following my blog for any length of time - but painting them on Terra Skin is wonderful!  The surface, along with using acrylics like watercolors, allowed me to get the feeling of water and know that I could layer without disturbing my previous painting.  I am going to continue fiddling with this a bit more but I wanted to post it for this week's painting.  It took SO long to paint.  It's large, 25" x 35", and a lot of the time was spent waiting for layers to dry.  This was painted with  a combination of pouring and direct painting.  So far, this probably has about 20 thin layers of paint, which gives it a wonderful translucent quality.  I took WIP pictures which I will make into a slide show later this week (if the pictures turned out) so you can see my process.

Watery World - on TerraSkin
Image size 25" x 35"
Acrylic

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Posted by Nancy Goldman at 5:05 PM
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9 comments:

  1. hmuxoSeptember 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM

    This is wonderful, Nancy!! I can't wait to see the process on how you did this one! LOVE it!!

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  2. Deborah Younglao, Silk PainterSeptember 3, 2012 at 8:09 PM

    I think this is the best koi I've seen you do, Nancy. The watery texture is really believable and I love the shaft of light. Great job!

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  3. Autumn LeavesSeptember 4, 2012 at 2:59 AM

    Funnily enough, I was just thinking about your koi paintings yesterday as I looked at a card you sent me with a print of one of your earlier koi pieces. I just love how you layer in your colors! I was looking for terraskin at Dick Blick on Saturday and they didn't have any. I did, however, pick up some aquaboard for the future. Neither of these would I have known about if not for you, Nancy.

    This piece is gorgeous! That terraskin works beautifully for water, doesn't it?

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  4. Nancy GoldmanSeptember 4, 2012 at 6:01 AM

    Thank you Hilda. I've never done a slide show before so we'll see how it turns out.

    Thank you Deborah. This is my favorite Koi painting that I've done too. You'll probably see more of these now that I've found this wonderful surface.

    Thank you Sherry. Cheap Joe's now has TerraSkin. That might be the only place in the U.S. that has it right now. When I bought mine, I had to get it from Canada.

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  5. Gatepost productionsSeptember 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM

    It's ages since I visited, Nancy - life has been so hectic.
    Wow! a big painting - I bet it looks fantastic, the colours and the lighting are magical ... such an exciting piece of art; I bet it was great fun to paint

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  6. Nancy GoldmanSeptember 4, 2012 at 6:01 PM

    Thank you for visiting again John. It was a really fun painting to paint.

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  7. RosemarySeptember 5, 2012 at 7:46 AM

    Have so enjoyed this morning's visit to your blog which is a long time favorite! Love "Watery World" and your joy in creating it shows! I have not heard of TerraSkin - so - thanks for the heads up! I, too, have lots of acrylic paint and start most of my oils with an acrylic underpainting. Your oil painting is lovely! Can't wait to see the slide show!

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  8. Theresa PadenSeptember 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM

    So beautiful and colorful Nancy, and I love the water lily. Have you tried using a hair dryer to make the layers dry faster?

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  9. Nancy GoldmanSeptember 7, 2012 at 6:00 AM

    Thank you Rosemary. I'm working on the slide show now so hopefully it will be done soon.

    Thank you Theresa. I'm afraid the heat from my hairdryer would negatively effect the resist. I need to get one that had a no heat mode and then that would probably work well.

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