Layering and Excavating: Working the Surface

 If you missed last week's zoom mini-workshop on Layering and Excavating, you can now purchase access to the video recording of it. Click here to buy it.

This is one of the pieces demonstrated in Layering and Excavating. Learn how to layer with transparent paints using a squeegee, create fog with opaque paint, carve lines through alcohol-softened paint, and more. Click here for access.

Layering and Excavating Technique Takeaway

Join me this Friday, May 21, for a Zoom demonstration of Layering and Excavating Techniques. This is part of Winslow Art Center's Technique Takeaway series, little bite-size workshops focusing on specific techniques. 5:00 - 6:30 pm EASTERN TIME, 2:00 - 3:30 Pacific. Sign up here.

This is a brief video showing some of what I will cover.

 

Brayer Technique

I use a brayer - usually a 2" one - to apply paint when my collage is getting too busy and I need a bold, fresh start. It not only covers an area quickly, but it emphasizes the texture of the collage, thereby not "wasting" any of the material underneath. I also use it to lift the paint, so that I can build layers gradually. Here is a video demonstration: