Sunnylady's star paintings motivated me for this one. The painting was done on a small canvas, 7"x11", and was a recycled one which explains the wrinkled surface here and there on the canvas.
This was a very fast and mostly easy painting yet the small size of the canvas did trouble me at moments. The total image looks a bit blurred and that has all to do with the reaction of liquid white and paint thinner on a liquid clear surface, and the use of cheap paint. I should be far more careful next time!
By the way this underlaying texture gives very interesting effect, I wonder how it looks in real life.
Dear Sunnylady, I recycled so far already three canvasses. One was relatively freshly painted so that could be scraped off with a palet knife more or less easy.
The other two were much older. I never took off the paint and simply added black gesso on it. Both were foreseen to be practice paintings so I didn't care that much for the underlaying texture. Afterwards, I wish I had done something since the wrinkled surface is really disturbing.
Your sand paper suggestion is a good one. The canvasses are strong enough to put that to work. Afterwards you will have to apply white gesso (or black) again and preferably two layers.
Have fun! :)
Yes, the effect does wonders when the lights shines from different directions. Although disturbing, it does create a special effect!
Indeed Tom, the effect is gorgeous, unintended but suitable!
I have one more left like this!
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Voy, you mention the recycled canvas second time. Did you do any prep work on it like sanding a top layer of paint to remove underlaying texture? I have 2 canvas to recycle and I was wondering what will work the best as there is texture of the mountains in one of them that is quite thick... What can you recommend?