RELieF PAINTING - (Click on image to enlarge)
Lighthouse cliff
This is a relief with drywall compound on canvas to give it dimension! Normally I do a rough sketch first on the canvas but this time I just took a pallet knife and started throwing the drywall compound on the canvas with only a rough Idea of what I wanted to do! It is a 16 X 20 canvas with a homemade frame I made and finished with a high gloss varnish!
Relief painting is a combination of sculpting and painting. It goes back to the walls of Egypt and Mesopotamia and used heavily by the Greeks and Romans. It is basically
three-dimensional art on a canvas. My first attempt here is of Moses with the 10 commandments. These will soon be available in small poster prints!
MOSES
The process was to first gesso and texture the canvas with drywall compound. When it dried, I painted the background and afterwards I glued thin hardboard to the back of the canvass to give it support for the relief sculpture. I created Moses from white air-dried clay and after it dried, I sanded it, glued it to the canvas, added the rocks at the bottom from more joint compound and then later painted it with acrylic paint and sprayed polyurethane over it all to protect it and give it a shine,
joseph's coat of many colors!
This is 3D relief with the hair, coat and part of the hands and feet made of Plaster of Paris on canvas and then painted in acrylic paint. metalic acrylic pour paint was used on the coat to give it a shiny look!
Luminescent Garden
Hot Glue and acrylic with luminescent media on 10 x 16 canvas. REPRODUCTIONS AVAILABLE AT WEBSTORE
