LFGSS Art Club.

One painting sells another begins

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Two and three colors.

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Looks like the old images that needed the cardboard 3D specs!

Still trying to teach myself how to use watercolours, don't often get the chance to practice but I am off work this week.

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Out of interest, what ink or paint are you using?

Love it

Cool. Really like the top one.

I've migrated from the DIY, I'm not trying to stalk you, I do just care.
trust me, no-one at art school [/very few UK art schools] will give you the bonafide answer or a how to on this, as it is all very much make it up yourself and refine your own work process, despite 100s of years of practise to go from..

• from this image using this developed technique I think you're easily allowing yourself to over stretch the canvas
  

I take your comments onboard. My only response is that if the canvas wasn’t stretched to the degree I stretch it to, it would have wrinkles in it, which would be very unsightly.

Have you been to the Craig Martin at the ra? There are two canvases that need to be re stretched, to the point that I can't believe that they let them be hung..
I'll pay more attention to how canvas is stretched to what is painted on in
Your fighting the canvas before it's stretched

Random acrylics. Hobbycraft bargain bins generally

I 🫀 these!
Is that a laser cut jig you've made there?

Yes indeed

I'm probably missing something and put two and two together and got six.
(I think I have mentioned it before but)
the stretching of unprimed canvas happens when it's sprayed with water prior to priming. The canvas is unsafronised it shrinks when wet

Linen or preprimed canvas are a different kettle of fish
But way beyond that, there are 1001 way to do something and, you've honed in what you're doing to work for you..

It doesn't help that the same word is used for different process. So, putting the canvas around the frame with staples is getting it to tension (normally relatively lose but size does matter).. (it won't sound like a drum, ping, when tapped) . Spraying with water will shrink (stretch) the canvas. Bringing it to a lovely drum vibration when tapped.
Gesso primer has water in too!

this is the back of the only one I have to hand it's (dirty and I ain't cleaning it, 15years old) 420x550mm, size matters as the larger the canvas more the shrinkage (and then it becomes skill)

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bonus inverted shot of the front for whatever the fuck was going on there..

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It’s very neat.

I’ve found if I don’t stretch the canvas sufficiently it develops wrinkles.

It’s 105x135 and it has a piece of hard board in the construction to keep the surface flat.

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^ looks very neat

His or mine?

Well, both. I'd be with yours though

Somewhat ludicrously and a bit nepo-y I am having some of my stuff displayed. Need to fill walls and so have made this set of 16.

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Stuff on a wall

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great stuff
the small dots look great all together like that. Good luck with it all

Something new off the easel

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
90x30

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