Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Top of the Clique!?

Lately I have really been inspired by the Sensei's Divining Top, thus my ambisious attempts at altering it.

Lately I have been experimenting with with liquid vs the heavy bodied paste acrylics.  With this I wanted to compare line work and smoothness of the finished product.
 Now with this one I used the heavy bodied mars black and from a live view you can't really see some of the inconstant smoothness, but in the digital copy you can see that it was difficult to maintain a smooth line and changes in thickness with in that line.  Keep in mind I did water it down in my palette to change the consistency but unfortunately it still didn't quite stand up to my next example.
 Now here I switched to liquid snow white paint.  I wanted to make a rather ambitious test with this piece just show how much different the quality you get between the two paints with line work.

With both of these pieces I used a mixture of both to prime and create the backgrounds.