Painting Experiments 3

I'm still playing with my painting. Last time it looked like this:

While colourful, it was not what I had seen in my mind. So, of course, that meant I had to change  play with it!

                                                                                                                                             

I sketched out three leaves and Painted around their shapes with indigo. You can see the faint texture added by the plastic wrap on the leaves.

I grabbed a white crayon to use as a resist and drew a flower shape, then added some darker paint to make the flower show up. Some leaves were painted beneath the flower.

Here are some more squiggles made with the crayon and painted over.

I added more layers of colour on one side of the squiggles to make them pop.

I then decided to darken inside the three leaves. Look what happened! One of the original wax circles came to life! I guess they weren't lost as I'd thought. Was it because the colour over top wasn't dark enough?

So I decided to try painting over the 'worm' squiggle I thought had disappeared. And look! It showed up, too! Interesting.

So now I have several areas of interesting shapes...the flower and leaves, the double circle squiggles, the indigo leaves with a circle motif, and a worm squiggle. I might just cut these shapes out to make a few cards. What do you think? Or maybe I should switch to inks or acrylics and add more texture, or just  play and see? Which would you do?

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs from Suz