Acrylic experiment

Hi Everyone!

I wish for all of you to have the very best day that you can have. 

I am excited about this experiment that I did with acrylics. 

 I have been wanting to create something like this for a long time and until I saw a Bob Ross video I had an idea. Most everyone knows Bob Ross and that he is an oil painter. I paint both but for this I want to see if I could take his techniques and apply them to acrylics. A few years ago I made my own clear flow medium for acrylics and soooo this is what I created.

Scroll down to see how I painted this.

 I started with a 12x16" black gallery canvas

 Using white acrylic paint I dabbed in the background

and allowed to dry. Bob Ross used gesso but I am out of gesso.

 Using black acrylic paint I put in the trees and fore ground 

        and allowed to dry. Again Bob used black gesso. 

                                 Then I applied a coating of my acrylic flow medium.                            

Now for the fun part. What I basically did was put a glaze over the black and white.

I started at the corners and worked down the canvas with Phthalo blue. I went back over the

corners with Prussian blue. I painted the fore ground with Indian yellow and then blended in

a mix of Sap green and Crimson for a darker appearance.

I did find that I had to add a bit of the flow medium 

to my brush to get the right effect.

With the white paint I added the light and rays.

I think it turned out pretty well and I will use this effect in the future.

Note I did use the colors of paint that Bob Ross did.

Recipe for the acrylic flow medium. I mixed these because I didn't find either one work very well on it's own.

Mix about 40% of a slow drying medium to 60% of a flow medium then add

some airbrush medium until you get a smooth texture. You can actually make this as thick or loose as you like. Keep it in a tightly covered jar. It will last forever.

Have a creative day today.

Nicole/DVArtist

 Honor and integrity in art, in life.