Glue as an art material redux

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Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!

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June 24th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art in progress, Darren Cox, Flickr, My Art, My life, Peoria, Sha Na Na, acrylic painting, alternate reality, angel, art techniques, cat, clear acrylic medium, creative energy, drawing, figure, fine art, girl, horse, illustration, nude, oil painting, pencil sketch, pencils, pose, quantum-art, random art, tinted glue, winged being, writing on art | No Comments »

Welcome to 99daz.com the most popular, famous and beloved art blog from West Peoria Illinois, dimension az6d3xe (the dimension where Vincent Van Gogh cut part of his ear off because Paul Gauguin made him so exasperated, if this is not your home dimension please push this quantum button * to return to galactic station Alpha.) natives of this planet will now have their memories wiped and again think they are the only planet with life in the entire universe, which is the reason why they don’t have The Sha Na Na Show on DVD like the rest of the universe does.

Speaking of Sha Na Na, I always loved their version of The Rays "Silhouettes" and especially the lines

Rushed down to your house with wings on my feet.

Loved you like I never loved you my sweet.

I have drawn wings on people feet ever since, I even have a wing tattoo on my ankle haha! So here is the nude angel taking off to fly in the clouds illustration I drew today, remember that nudity in classical art means truthfulness and angels, to me, represent truth, or at least a step above our mortal failings. angel taking off to fly sketch by darren daz cox 99daz.com gobzine

And on another art topic, the mighty and awesome Charie Magoo asked me to elaborate and opine upon the use of glue as an art material. so here’s what came to mind. Acrylic paint is just plastic bits in a solution (that dries) with pigment in it, and glue (elmers, white glue anyway) is the same (only it doesn’t dry quite as clear) so you can put pigment in white glue and it dries with a color in it. It is fun to add glue over wet acrylic paint and when it dries it cracks the acrylic in excellent textures!

Allegory of Dawn painting by darren Daz Cox

One thing I tried that worked well was acrylic paint, then regular markers over the dried layer then glue on top of that, the glue picks up the marker (works best with bottles like white glue that come out in thin lines) then when the glue dries you can literally wash off the other marker ink off the surface of the painting! more examples on this blog page http://99daz.com/simplicity-is-beautiful-random-crackle-effects-with-acrylic-paints-and-white-elmers-type-glue-added-while-wet-and-horse-paintings

I rarely put glue with oil paint though, as glue and acrylics will not last as long as oil paints and to me they don’t seem as subtle as light doesn’t go through acrylics as well as it does through oils which is why oil paintings have a luminescence (because light shines through the layers with pigment and bounces off the white primer below). Glue diffuses the light and it’s a flatter effect which can be a good contrast!

With oil paints I prefer to use more natural accents such as salt (same way as you salt watercolors for speckle texture, it works with oils too!)

Sometimes life is just too awesome when it comes to art. I put salt on some ‘stormy spring’ oil paintings I’m working on in the basement, over the blue oil paint layer that was the rainy sky, and today the salt crystals turned into drops of water from the humidity, the effect is so beautiful so I will now attempt to photograph them BRB.