Coconut Palm, acrylic 12 x 9 |
More fun with the palette knife and acrylics. Wish I were on that beach now...
The gallery of my art journey. All content and images © Blaga Ketzkarova
Моята галерия. Съдържанието и всички изображения са собственост на Благовеста Кецкарова
The Orange Sail, acrylic 12" x 9" |
I quite like the freedom that comes with this technique. Though, I keep remembering a question from someone I know: "When are you going to move from watercolor to a more advanced media, like acrylic or oil?" It is baffling and quite sad that instead of learning about a subject, some people would rather put it in a rigid frame of simple rules, and keep quoting with authority stale beliefs from dusty books of centuries past.
I'll play with acrylics as it gives me pleasure and do watercolors, when I miss the challenge. Each of them teaches me something.
Sea study 4, acrylic 6" x 4.5" |
Sea study 3, acrylic 6" x 4.5" |
Mountain reflections, acrylic, 12" x 9" |
Rila mountain, acrylic 12" x 9" |
Hillside shrubs, acrylic 12" x 9" (based on Gerald Ashcroft's tutorial) |
For courage, I went through a tutorial by an Australian artist Gerald Ashcroft, whose loose style attracted me. Following it, I did the second landscape with only four colors and a painting knife. Then I applied the same technique to the top view from the Rila mountains in Bulgaria. Each painting took me about two hours and I truly enjoyed doing them.