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Painting process posts by Ellen McCormick Martens
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Friday, April 21, 2023
"Family History"
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"Family History" |
"Family" became "Family History", which is about the complex background to our experience of our relatives. When we go back in time, there are more and more people, who provided us with our genetic material, our culture, our religion in some cases, and our identity. We have to remember them because they all shaped our reality.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
"Family" Today
I added some line work, white dots, and white and red-orange collage pieces. I am planning to try to lower the intensity of the red-violet areas.
Monday, April 17, 2023
"Family" in Process
This painting has gone through several transmutations in the past couple of days. It was too orange, so I glazed it with blue and violet, then I scraped blue-green paint over the whole surface, which brought out the textures, and then I masked some of the shapes and glazed it with red-violet. I will have to tone down the magenta with yellow-green. It is a balancing act!
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Before and After Spread
The top image is a 2-page spread in my single-sheet sketchbook before I added line work and collage, and the bottom one is after. It is from a "slop board", a sheet of watercolor paper onto which I wiped my leftover paint while working on a painting.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Thursday, April 06, 2023
Single-sheet Sketchbook in Process
First two 2-page spreads from this sketchbook. It was made from my "slop-board", a sheet of watercolor paper on which I wipe my brushes when I am about to wash them. I added collage of various kinds. The pages are 5 1/2" x 7 1/2".
Monday, April 03, 2023
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
"Doors of Perception" Series in Process
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
"Family" Painting in Process
Thursday, March 16, 2023
"Family"
24"Hx36"W, acrylic and paper on canvas. This is a rework of an older painting that seemed to need some zing. In fact, I am still not satisfied with it.
Thursday, March 09, 2023
"Family Secrets"
24x24, acrylic and paper on wood panel. This refers to the murky undercurrents in families when secrets are kept, by each generation.
Tuesday, March 07, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Process / Style Development
These paintings have been on my living room wall since October of 2021. A couple of days ago, I realized that I love pattern and masking off shapes that show the underlying layer. So, I am trying that out on this series.
1. I coat the first layer with GAC 800
2. I apply contact paper shapes as masks
3. I coat the entire surface with a glaze color
4. I remove the masks
Friday, February 10, 2023
Yellowstone Landscape Evolution
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
"Dark Swirls" Sketch
9x12" mixed media sketchbook, acrylic paint sprayed and dripped, using masks ct from plastic binder dividers as well as hot-glue-gun masks.