Painted Lady

Remember the torso from a few posts ago, well I finally began the makeover.
I have been busy lately with my articles for Fibre & Stitch, and decided I needed a little play time, so I thought I would make a start on the first layer, I could not find my black acrylic anywhere, so used a new tube of Payne's Grey, I used up the whole tube, even to cutting open the tube to get the last dregs of paint, I also ended up getting it on a lot of other things at the same time.
Once I had finished, I moved some stuff and there was my big tub of black paint
After leaving it to dry, I took a picture and although I could see a few specks of the base colour, I was amazed at how much showed up in the photo.
Whilst I was painting the base, which takes some time on the first coat, I was thinking on what I plan to do in the future, back in February my friend Lynda and I talked about doing an exhibition together later in the year, but with the opportunity of our involvement in Fibre & Stitch suddenly coming up in May, we put our ideas on hold.
I now feel ready to start thinking about what I want to do, I have not worked on a series of work, since City and Guild days, and I am looking forward to doing some research and sampling, and really getting my teeth into something new, ready for the new year.
Well back to the painted lady.

2nd Layer

This layer was a build up of Silver and Copper acrylic, used with a dry brush in thin layers as if your stencilling, allow to dry, this doesn't take long with the thinner layers, the close up (above) always come out darker for some reason.

3rd Layer, (Below) I used Liquitex Maroon Glossies, spreading the paint as far as each brush full will go gives you darker and lighter areas, cover the whole surface,

4th Layer (Below)
For this layer I used Purple System 3 Acrylic, again in a dry brush movement over the whole surface, It may look as if not much is changing, but each layer becomes a richer deeper colour, with glimpses of the underlying colours showing through, will continue the layers tomorrow

Painting Pelmet Vilene

Been having a little play today, as I cant seem to get going on any project, I decided I would paint up some pelmet vilene, this is the first stage, I have glued some scrim onto the vilene, and started with a base layer of Copper Acrylic.

The first layer of paint, copper, purple, dark rose, the colour has come out a bit darker on the close up above

leaving it to dry and will build up more colour tomorrow.