Duck!

 The 3-day sale is over. and life goes on...

Part of my October 10 post looked like this:

I chose my sponge brayer approach* in making prints on wet-strength tissue paper.

Below are a couple of those prints.  The top one was made with 9" x 12" Fire Cherries L879 ....

...and the bottom print was made using 9" x 12" Garden Montage L652 

What happened next?  I started auditioning these prints and/or parts of them onto a prepared background...

After making my final selections, I adhered them to the background with matte gel medium.  Next, I used zinc white acrylic paint to paint out areas of what eventually became background for a duck shape.

The final piece looks like this:

The finished piece has been given subtle changes.  Will this stretched canvas always have this duck shape as the star of the show?  I haven't decided.  More changes may be in its future!

However, by playing with Photoshop, I've found an image that better pleases my eye.  It's simply a cropped version of the "finished" (unfinished?) mixed media collage shown above....

*My sponge brayer approach is simple and it saves my wrists and hands; they suffer if I indulge in too much sponge-pouncing to make prints with my masks and stencils.  My steps are below: 

I squeeze out heavy-body acrylic paint (shown at the top of the photo above); then I load the sponge brayer by rolling it repeatedly over the acrylic paint.  Often I add more paint as I go, since the sponge soaks up a lot of it while getting the outer layer loaded.

Above:  A sponge brayer being loaded with heavy-body acrylic paint.  This old photo shows my using a disposable foam plate. Now, I use a tablet of pallet paper.

After loading the brayer with paint, I place a stencil or mask atop a substrate, secure it with masking tape, and roll the brayer across the top.  See below:

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