Original Painting
Thick Acrylics
1.5 inch Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas
This Elephant Ear leaf was textured with a fork as a tool. Dragging through only thick acrylic paint, fascinating texture lines start to form as sgraffito impressions reveal the dark color underneath and light exotic yellow-green on top. Final touches of palette knife disturb the monotony to create an odd interest. Being painted over a non-stick surface creates a paintskin when dry that enables peeling off which helps with positioning easily on to the canvas.
A paintskin also enables lifting of the paint off the surface to form curls and bends that create a sculptural surface. The background and sides are also painted white to add quality, preservation, and sure stands out for a clean look. Whole piece is then also varnished to protect from environmental factors.
Exposure:
June 2019
Art Central show: "A Closer Look" of small paintings by The Painters Group with San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
Tropical Leaf Benefits:
- Feel like being in the tropics
- Add nature to the room that brings life
- Bring zen and calm to your space
- Feel 3-dimension of original or 3D appearance to a print
- Enjoy the leaf paintings without the plant care
- Decorate for your Luau party
Leaf Set Description:
In a tropical mood, or want to get away and escape to an island paradise? These tropical leaf sets can be just the thing to set the scene, or resemble the lifestyle you love.
Parts of Ruth Collis' style is to paint off the canvas surface and on to a non-stick peelable substrate for the temporary first step. This enables easy arranging on to the canvas.
Some of the leaves are made from squeezing thick paint through cake decorating tips to give their stylish appearance, while also turning it to a permanent art form now to enjoy.
Available individually so far.
