WWelcome to the Apr-Jun 2008 Project. The theme for this project will be "Abstract with Texture." The painting you submit must be abstract in nature and contain a texture feature created with something other than pigment, i.e., tissue paper, salt, glue, etc. The painting must be painted specifically for this project and be watermedia. Submit your images to me via email or snail mail. Send title, size, and comments about the paintings and painting process. I have many artists interested in the quarterly projects, and don't always remember everyone's name--please provide your full name when you submit your image. Let me know if it is OK to link your email address when I add your image to the project page. The project end date is Jun 30, 2008.
The images on this page are protected by copyright law. Any use without the expressed consent of the artist is prohibited!!!
Witha Lacuesta
"Dance IV - Evolution"
I haven't participated in a while but here is one I just completed. Watercolor with hand made paper collage. Paper was also done by me. Image size: 20" x 28".
Penny Thompson
"Alien Eyeballs"
I loved this project as I went through the house looking for things I could use. On the edges I used spackling tape to make the hatched design. I used saran wrap on the red areas to creat a wall paper pattern and on the green globes I used salt. This has inspired me to try other things, perhaps cotton string etc. When I showed it to my husband, he said it looked like "Alien Eyeballs, so that is now it's title. Thanks again for the challenge.
Donna Elio
"Ishmael"
Texture feature watercolor over paper towel
leaving a fish scale like texture. Painted a wash of Raw Sienna Placed torn
piece of towel on dried wash and then saturated paper towel with Burrnt Sienna
then added more washes wet on dry.
Size 6 1/2 x 5.
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Bonnie McBride
"In My Dreams"
Well this project has been fun, This is 1/4
sheet 140 lb I had a dream about this after getting the invitation to paint
abstract with textures. Next day I drew out the shapes while I could still
remember, thus the name "In My Dreams".
The purple and teal was overlaid with crumpled saran until it dried, then
topped up with more color, next the yellow and cad orange had rock salt sprinkled
at the top, and them dry brushed with cad orange after it dried. Next, the
circle was gradated, with a splattering of perm rose, then topped off with
a duochromatic green (from daniel smith), the rose and yellow had a splatter
of clean water , then drops of color blown across the surface. Finally the
triangle was a mixture of DS teal green and dioxanine purple with paper towel
laid over to absorb. Almost finished
now, the next step was to mask the shapes , then I flung paint over the surface,
after it was dry I outlined the shapes with WC pencil and gently wet with
a tiny brush.
Sherry Thurner
"Untitled"
I've been experimenting with texture the past
couple months, so this was just what I wanted. This painting is 8x8"
painted with layers of black and white gesso, fluid acrylic colors, and collaged
tissue paper.
Geraldine Ward
"Untitled"
Painting is done on a half sheet of Strathmore 140 lb. cold press paper with W&N and Koi paints. For my texture feature, I chose collage, first folding and then applying a section of "twist ties" that appealed to me, bits of aluminum foil, as well as a shard of cobalt blue glass, which seemed to echo some of the black details. I also used a spatter of silver metallic liquid acrylic. I began this painting with multicolored washes, then layered color to achieve a transparent effect here and there. Always intrigued by the rind of a cantaloupe, I couldn't resist painting small areas of one various colors, then rolling the painted melon over the dry washes; this created a mesh or net effect. I also used a bit of a very dried out tube of yellow as an impasto. My inspiration was a combination of Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro, and Carmen Miranda, I guess! Thank you for this fun project, and for the inspiration to do a little "series" of these with all the bits and pieces of things I've been saving for so long.
Debra Holmes
"Untitled"
This project was a challenge for me, in fact this is my third attempt at painting my first abstract. I used masking fluid on the indigo area, plastic wrap in the green area, violet thalo area wax paper, indian red is spattered with indigo, the diamond sponged on in cadmium red, rectangle was painted with thio violet and I pressed a piece of screening on the area, the circle was painted with gamboge and bubble wrap pressed into it, the square was painted with cobalt blue that I painted on the soles of four different shoes and pressed onto the paper. Painting is 8 1/2" x 11" and I used American Journey Watercolors, 140lb cold press.
Carol Prentiss
"Sonata in B Flat"
Greetings from Brasil. This assignment certainly did challenge me. I'm not at all sure it was what I'd call fun. But it did certainly take me outside the box. I'm not sure I understand "Abstract" painting, but at least I was somewhat familiar with "Texture". So what you get is what you see. Tissue paper, Paper Towel and Sgrafitto. Oh yah! And a strip of watercolor paper I cut off the end of another painting. For some reason it reminds me of music, hence the title. Aquarelle 140#, poured color and #12 round and all those texturing tools. About 12" x 8". Thanks Maury, even if it wasn't the funnest thing I've done, I still loved putting colored water to paper.
Barbara Sailor
“Two Moons over Cleveland”
This project was a lot of fun for someone who seldom works abstractly. For the textural element, I decided to stamp a pattern onto wet gesso. I used the patterned rubber from placemats on a half sheet of Arches, 140 lb. w/c paper. The watercolors are mostly Holbein and the lines were created with a thin line watercolor marker. The composition is from a photograph I have of downtown Cleveland looking east over the Cuyahoga River valley from the west side of Cleveland. Thanks, Maury, for such interesting challenges.
Richie Gunn
"Housing Bubble"
This is the June abstract, it is on 11x15 strathmore paper block sheet. Three primes, green, black mixed on paper and pallett transparent watercolors. I painted it during the start of the housing bubble, and the beginning of the new green movement. I tried to use the words being used by the experts to explain the housing bubble in print and video and make shapes from them. This is my result.
Maury Kettell
"Cold as Ice"
I started this painting out by stretching a full sheet of Arches CP, 22" x 30" and then wetting it all over. After I had the paper completely saturated with water, I dripped and poured gesso randomly around the paper. Since my paper was quite wet when I poured the gesso, I got a light film over most of the surface and good streaks where I was intent on pouring continuous lines. The actual application of pigment was quite a bit different because the paint didn't sink into the paper.
Georgina Jones
"Untitled"
Well...this was fun! I used masking fluid for the wavy lines and circles..... then soaked the paper in a tub of water....poured paint on while wet and tilted the paper this way and that. When all was dry I removed the masking fluid and added some decoration with watercolor pens. 140lb cold press paper...Winsor Newton paints. I'm going to try this again :o). Thanks for the challenge.
Susan Rose
"Twisted"
Here is my submission for this months abstract, textured piece. I kinda went crazy with this project, definately classified as experimental art for me, so thanks for the challenge. Our town had a tornado come through last week, so this was the inspiratation for "Twisted". Texture includes items of debris: dirt, grass, leaves, seeds, pottery and fiberglass. I use a cat grooming bush to worked molding paste gesso on top of the base, giving the swirls. I burned the edges of the pictures to be different. Not sure I like the results yet, but here is "Twisted."
Dorothy Wagner
"On Cloud Nine"
This is a small abstract, only 8 by 10 inches--started on watercolor paper, 140 Lb weight. A juicy coating of gesso was painted on. The watercolors were dropped in. Layers of wrinkled tissue paper added as well as torn printed paper. More colors were added after it dried and black marker. This was a really fun project. I did several at the same time. In fact the table was covered with abstracts. I never knew that was going to happen or how it would turn out. It was fun to let go and watch the paintings develop. The scan did not show the wrinkled texture of the painting.
More paintings to come