well hello there all. I hope that everyone out there is having a good Tuesday morning thus far. i am jazzed do to the fact that i get to pick up my son tonite . the other reason you ask? the answer, is yesterday i started a new piece of flash. i am a tattooer so as I'm sure you can imagine this is nothing new @ all to my routine of things to paint.
the way that it differs from my normal paintings or my normal flash is in the subject matter and the medium that i produced it in and on. normally when i do flash i am like most tattoo artist and use a form of water color paper i use arches personally because it is a medium roughness and always and, i mean always provides the proper consistency of the absorption . the next step is to use speedball ink and water to create my grey shades and fade outs and of cores at this point to fill in the solid black parts allowing it to dry. the last steps would then to be to add the color if it is not a black and grey piece. i would suggest the Dr.Martin ink for this part of the proses you can delude it and fade the color out to amazing consistency or you can put the paint on extremely thick for an almost over powering color blast. the last part of the proses is the finalization of the black lines and some times i will add white highlights with a prismacolor white colored pencil just to make things pop a bit more.
so now that i have put you to sleep with my explanation of how i do water colors normally , go ahead grab some hot coco and a blanket and get ready to well go back to sleep because now how i did this flash. the way that i produced my odd well odd for me subject matter of a harry potter flash set is with acrylic on canvas paper , last but not least i had to be a dork. i started with a nice and very light grey wash over the in tire canvas which made it look almost as if was dusty or drop ed on the ground. the second step was a wash of really light green watered down. I really wanted this piece to stand out and be as if from the world of harry potter , as if it could be a scroll from Hogwarts or the ministry showing the dark mark.
to achieve this effect i outlined and and shaded each small piece with its own watered down color producing a purple, black and grey and green dark mark. well as established i am a nerd so i did go to see the deathly hollows this past week so in its honor i made the symbol of the deathly hollows in red and slightly illuminated with a metallic gold acrylic. even though the shine for the metallic cold paint cannot be reproduced in the exact manner in a tattoo i felt that it really made the piece start to come together as a scroll or document look as opposed to just another flash sheet, tho finish this effect off i put notwork in golds and silver framing the sides of the images, to achieve a worn look i did uneven painting and used a watered down black to help frame it in and look inconsistent.
well feel free to stand and stretch now that i am done making you sleep. as far as paint for this project it is liquitex basics for the color. i find that i can layer there basic paint to become very thick or if i need to water it down or be thin it is very easy to achieve. t metallic paint id also acrylic and from deco art company they have an amazing shine to them that is almost believable of gold leafing.
well this is the blog and probably way to much nerd info for you guys and galls . i hope @ least you like the image i plan on doing some moore harry potter flash soon just for shits and giggles . well have a good Tuesday guys and if your here in the states have a great thanksgiving.
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