Sunday, May 20, 2012

Painting Without Plaster

I have been itching to do some more paintings on plaster.... but with the plaster supply store 100 miles away, and being that I ran out I had to think of another way to do some painting.

So I looked around my studio, and found some smallish (3.5 inch) blocks of wood.   They were pretty rough to paint on, so I covered them with a layer of paper and painted on top of that.

I loved painting on them, and letting the painting travel over the sides.

I loved creating the first one so I decided to make another one.

I haven't done a lot of painting before, but love the look of lots of layers..... and these paintings have LOTS of layers, and took me much longer then I expected they would.


I also really like how the paper gives an imperfect square - and a little bit of depth to the surface.


I enjoyed painting each one of them.
I am no longer in such a rush to get some plaster.

12 comments:

  1. These are very beautiful Kim, i love the colours, I do a similar thing with smallblocks of wood and sell loads of them in my shop here in Wales, i can't make enough of them, people love these smaller, more affordable, pieces of art. xx

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  2. Your small paintings are beautiful...alone or altogether. The colors and the simple designs pulled me right in. I think you're doing great art without the plaster.

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  3. Wonderful little gems Kim. You should be very pleased with them.

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  4. They are beautiful Kim... and isn't it wonderful when we find something we weren't planning on... love that you covered the wood blocks with paper too... gorgeous paintings...

    Hugs
    Jenny x

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  5. These are so wonderful...especially all together. I love that special touch of nature you put on everything.

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  6. I just loved how much you "loved" painting these blocks! That's what great art is all about.

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  7. These are lovely, Kim! The layering gives them so much depth and feeling.

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  8. Hi Kim,
    For me they are holy. they are about Godde. especially the three dots. AWESOME

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  9. Kim, is there anything you can not create with??? �� they are beautiful, particularly together. Xo

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  10. clever girl! very nice little pieces.

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  11. these are each quite wonderful. Such a great idea to use the blocks and cover them with paper, and your colors are fab.

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  12. So happy to have found your blog from AJED today - Your work is gorgeous!! You are so very talented!

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