This piece, Floral Prose, started with a 24" x 36" gel transfer from a pigmented print on a gold leafed panel. It was my first this large and a success. The transfer was used as an underpainting.
I had been rereading the classics and I was thinking about Jane Austin as I did this piece and how the English must always dream of Spring. Maybe that is just me projecting my love of Spring and Summer.
Music is my muse. I create paintings to music. Try this yourself. Get your tools out, brushes, markers or whatever and put on some music. Let yourself flow with the melody and paint the sound.
We are two Santa Fe artists that were searching for a book just on image transfers and couldn't find one — so we wrote our own book. This experience led to our other books — Surface Treatment Workshop and Mixed Media Revolution. We have just put in a proposal for book four that we will tell you about soon. This has been a long but wonderful journey of learning and we had lots of fun and hope you do too.
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