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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

5 panels

A couple of weeks ago I decided to finally make a 5 panel painting for my lounge, its something I have wanted to make for a long time, the only thing is this took on a life of its own, I had planned on doing earthy colours, through to burnt orange and deep wine.
I started with a base of red oxide and nickel azo gold, threw a bit of turquoise in the mix, and then I picked up some new sprays I bought recently 'That Special Touch of Mica' rich purple and green pearl, I am in love with these colours,



You can just see the base colour of red oxide in the picture above, and then the other colours just took over



I kept adding more colours and playing with it, until I had to make myself leave it alone, but only after I added a touch of Goldfinger
They are up on the wall but its hard to get a picture of the true colours,I will try again when the sun is shining, its so dark and gloomy today. the top half glows in the light.



The top half glows in the light,
PS, question, if three panels are a triptych what are 5 panels called :)

15 comments:

Carol said...

you got me interested found this after a search -
polyptych (4 or more)… tetraptych (4), pentaptych (5), hexaptych (6), heptaptych (7), and octaptych (8)

They are lovely - are they stenciled? Just my colours woud go lovely in my house!!!

Heather said...

Must be a quintych!!! What ever it is, it's beautiful and the colours are gorgeous.

ju-north said...

Lovely! wouldn't get any work done in my house for looking at them!

Annie said...

Wow. That is really stunning.
A x

artymess said...

Wow Carol these are FABULOUS ...i love the colours ....x

Sharne Gregory said...

Your panels lok stunning. It looks textured, it is done with molding paste?

Unknown said...

These are wonderful - wish I could see them for real :)

Maggi said...

Absolutely stunning colours.

Polyák Ildikó said...

Amazing! What size are the panels?

sharon young said...

They are really stunning, love that colour combo.

Digitalgran said...

Wonderful work Carol!

Anonymous said...

Carol these are gorgeous! such a fantastic combination of color and texture.

Leah said...

wow - this is just wonderful! i love the color and the light. thanks for explaining your process also, very interesting.

LOVE STITCHING RED said...

Beautiful colours Carol

Helen said...

wow Carol!! they are stunning.

I'm dropping by after a long absence blogging and am delighted to see your pages again, also to add a little note... I'm changing my blog and webpage to http://thestudio-helensuzanne.blogspot.com/ and thought you'd like to update/add any old link you might have for heb-art journal.

hugs
Helen S