Tinted glue is a fun cheap accent to your paintings!
The Unique Ewe, oil on canvas 8.5 x 11 inches, then waterbased markers added to color her fleece, the next step is to add swirls of elmers (white) glue on the fleece to emphasize the swirl textures and to absorb the color of the marker. I’d guess that the pigment in the markers that will now be locked into the glue will not be as colorfast as the oil paints but it should last a childhood, perhaps it could be re-colored by another owner!
Vincent Van Gogh
Tinted glues do seem to be sturdy though, here’s a much larger example, canvas over a wood panel about 16×24. Yes, art history buffs, the girl on the horse is an homage to the mighty John Collier! In the sunrise areas I layed down a thick layer of ink from markers (hint: bingo markers are huge and cheap!) then drew my swirly random designs with the bottles of glue. After the glue is dry (couple of days) then you can wipe some black acrylic paint over the glue to make an excellent 3D effect!
~*Allegory of Dawn by Darren Daz Cox*~
Yesterday at the Art Alliance studios in Red Bank I was working on a piece of quantum art that I started in 1993. I tie-dyed a bed sheet, then ripped the sheet up to make ‘canvases’ as I was a starving artist and it was cost effective. On this blue-green random splotched fabric I had drawn, with grease pencil and pastels, a girl surfing while wearing a pink dress, sort of an homage to Jean-Honoré Fragonard and was really proud of my accomplishment, but something happened and I painted over it and then on the other side too. I kept it and it has been on my walls in various stages of existance ever since and the memory of that original piece of art lingers in my mind.
here’s a detail (lower right) of the latest incarnation and below is the previous incarnation before I washed it!
the smog and the rust gave me my tan.
One room in the projects far from Tahiti
a warzone with anti-whiteman graphiti.
The sun bleached a tie-die I made for a curtain
as my friends all wished me much fame
(and they’ll never let me forget it I’m certain),
but now it just seems kinda lame!
~*Art and poetry by Darren Daz Cox -former Urban Gauguin*~
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April 9th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I love the way you are giving us ideas and letting us in on how you are doing some of this art. I feel like I am lucky enough to be sitting in the front row at art class. Such good ideas too. I love the tinted glue.
Allegory of Dawn is cool.