Yesterday at college I was working by scratching into the surface of paper and then ‘excavating’ the marks by brushing very dry paint across the surface. I then did it on canvas with various implements to varying results.
Working at home today, I started by priming a roughly square piece of canvas with cream paint and then working into it (mainly with fingers, or finger with protector) with moss coloured acrylic and grey. Sticking with my tomb-raided colours.
The way I am working now, while being free, I am building up paint in areas and then scraping back, sometimes with a knife but often with a pencil now as I have been defining areas of my work – the pencil both clears a layer of paint and leaves its own mark.
