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This started out as a laser print of an infrared shot of Kodachrome Basin, taken with Kodak HIE film. It's a beautiful place!
I printed it out on plain white copy paper and first made a gelatin "skin" like the one I described here, but this time, after I coated the image with a couple of layers of gel medium, I painted it. I recently bought a set of Golden Open acrylics, which are touted as being slower drying than regular acrylic paints, and I thought this was a good way to test them.
After I was done painting the image, I gave those paints overnight to dry. Then I brushed another 2 layers of gel medium over the acrylic paint. Once dried completely, I soaked the copy paper that was supporting all of this so I could gently rub off the paper and reveal nothing but the clear gel medium skin, with the painted image embedded within.
Here it is with most of the paper rubbed off (there's a little rip at the top that I fixed later with more gel medium):
It's transparent, so it's fun to decide how to mount it.
Laid on top of a plain white background it looks like this:
I also laid it over a sheet of yellow cardstock to see what it did with the clear clouds, etc.
The yellow gives a slight tone to the clouds. I kinda like it.
I'm not certain how I'll mount it yet. I still need to trim that white border off. At the moment I'm wondering why I send myself down these rabbit holes.
All comments are welcomed and appreciated - thanks for looking!
I printed it out on plain white copy paper and first made a gelatin "skin" like the one I described here, but this time, after I coated the image with a couple of layers of gel medium, I painted it. I recently bought a set of Golden Open acrylics, which are touted as being slower drying than regular acrylic paints, and I thought this was a good way to test them.
After I was done painting the image, I gave those paints overnight to dry. Then I brushed another 2 layers of gel medium over the acrylic paint. Once dried completely, I soaked the copy paper that was supporting all of this so I could gently rub off the paper and reveal nothing but the clear gel medium skin, with the painted image embedded within.
Here it is with most of the paper rubbed off (there's a little rip at the top that I fixed later with more gel medium):
It's transparent, so it's fun to decide how to mount it.
Laid on top of a plain white background it looks like this:I also laid it over a sheet of yellow cardstock to see what it did with the clear clouds, etc.
The yellow gives a slight tone to the clouds. I kinda like it.
I'm not certain how I'll mount it yet. I still need to trim that white border off. At the moment I'm wondering why I send myself down these rabbit holes.
All comments are welcomed and appreciated - thanks for looking!
