Cecilia Swatton

 The synthetic substrate Yupo is a sheet of plastic that comes in tablets as well as a choice of thicknesses per sheet.  

Recently I pulled out a sheet with plans to explore its slippery surface in combination with some of my Abstract Composition Backbones Masks; and in this experiment, I used masks that I'd cut free from their original 6" x 6" frames.

Basically what I did was to, step-by-step, layer after layer, pour wet media onto the Yupo, with my customized masks included with each additional wet layer.  (I allowed the Yupo to dry between layers.)  The wet media:

1.  acrylic paints thinned with a mixture of water and matte medium liquid

2  Brusho dry powdered pigment spritzed with water.  

 

Layer/Step 1:

Above:  When this first layer had dried, I added linework with a permanent marker.  As the project moved forward, the marker line more or less disappeared.

Layer/Step2:

Layer/Step3:

Above:  This is where I should have stopped.  But I went on to add white outlined areas with a pump-style white acrylic marker/pen....

Layer/Step 4:

What you see directly above is the way the piece looks now.  I regret the white outlining but it's permanent, unless I were to try rubbing it with rubbing alcohol, but this would remove the paint layers underneath.

Having painted myself into a corner, so to speak, I'm considering adding more layers of translucent acrylic paint, filling in each of the marked-off sections with something slightly different from its next-door neighbors.

Abstract Composition Backbones Masks 1, 2, 3 and 4 look like this --

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