New {Painting In Motion}: Connected

Hello !

I am so happy to share with you a new {Painting In Motion} video. It is not the best quality ever because of the gloomy weather that decided to hit here while I was recording and the light changes it caused. But it is not that bad, you’ll see.

After the OwlCtopus… let me present you the… Owlephant ! (i am laughing at myself). I really don’t know where all those Sprixies come from, and you’ll see when watching the video that this painting was really challenging and that it took me some time to see the Owlephant (or… to accept that it was going to be it).

I created it on a 11×14″ canvas panel.

Despite the struggle, I had lots of fun playing with colors and lots of different media.

I enjoyed going back and forth in my decision making process, and see it evolve. The texture is amazing.

You can finally see the fantastic texture created with the Catalyst Wedge and Blade I told you about recently. I wanted to highlight the Owlephant but did not like that dull blue much. So I used the big 50mm Blade #04 (the orange one) to make easy peasy lines in it. It is so simple to make marks with it, you know how marks and texture are important to me to build the layers in my paintings.

I used the Wedge #01, which is mostly flat with a diagonal angle to apply the gel. Let me tell you: you need it for that ! It is stunning. Because it is made with silicone, it is strong but flexible. I never glued anything that easily before (and I do enjoy my palette knives for lots of reasons). I will probably purchase the #01 as a blade so I can have something smaller too.

Love love love the result, it is like the Owlephant is bursting. And we have a peak of what is still underneath that blue, which is always nice.

I am loving using white again. It can create such an interesting visual if I don’t make it totally opaque.

This leafy paper by Amy Tangerine is one of my favorite of the moment, white with simple design and a splash of really bright colors. (you know I love everything leafy and feathery, right ? ;)) I did not want to lose it, burried under layers of other stuff. This is why I chose to add white.

I think I will do that more often from now on, play with bright colors under white. Could get interesting…

I learned this wording technique in Mindy Lacefield‘s class «Paint your story» and I use it over and over again since. It just makes the message pops and well, I think the effect is pretty nice.

Connected…
… to your Inner Voice…
… to the Universe…
… to every alive being…
… to your Higher Self…
…Connected.

Watch the video:

Here are most of what I used to create this painting. Are missing the Lindy Stamp Gang color shots and the papers for the first layer of the painting. Here you go: