Acrylic Adventures

I realize it has been nearly half a year since my last post, this absence has not been for lack of creativity, but more lack of my computer. My laptop doesn't particularly like to turn on anymore, and it takes some coaxing to boot it into action. BUT, I've got lots of photos, and I'll try to do better on making words to go with them more often.

Earlier this year, I got in the mood to do a little work on canvas, starting with a birthday gift for my oldest sister. A while back, probably during my last painting phase, my sister had suggested that I paint something large for the house where she worked. Well...I didn't. I had good intentions of doing something for her, but I was intimidated by a larger canvas, so the project just kinda left my mind. So now that a few years had gone by, and I felt like tackling a new painting, I decided to finally paint something for her.

This sister loves the ocean, so naturally, an ocean inspired color scheme is what I set out to get.

 After a Hobby Lobby run, I ended up with these colors, and a 24x24 inch canvas.

  For step one, I worked from coral to teal blending colors as I made my way up the canvas. My goal was for the colors to meet in the middle at a neutral beige, the same color that I planned to use for the next layer, so that the chevron pattern would almost vanish as it hit the middle of the canvas.

 After I was happy with the background, I applied painters tape in a chevron pattern.

Here is the final product after I painted over the tape with a light beige and removed tape to reveal the above result. Can you smell the salt water yet?