I JUST MADE ACRYLIC SNOW!!!
Dec 15, 2013 - Blog post by Ruth Collis
I JUST MADE ACRYLIC SNOW!!! So excited I put this in a little video tutorial for any students wanting to learn, and have to show you what is possible in painting with 3D snow!
Having 3-dimensional snow means that it is now possible to just drop snow textures on the painted trees instead of having to paint it in & all the shadows, & now have immense texture too!
I'm looking up trees now & all the stuff I disliked about snow, that now has a new light... and no cold applying the acrylic snow to your painting! Yipee.
Looks like styrofoam, but it's not. It's an acrylic paint product made by the Golden paint manufacturing company.
I guess it turned out just right, having discovered this in the month of December where you see all the snowy Christmas scenes. :)
Micro 3D Winter Trees
Entirely Acrylics
2x3
Entry in monthly contest with "Winter" theme this time, from the Facebook group: Fun with Acrylic Painting.
So this is the process of creation where sometimes what you intend doesn't work, but something else unexpected may come about that leads to a new discovery and whole new way for artists to paint.
Update:
Dec. 2, 2014, at 12:17 am - by Ruth Collis
Here is an example to the right of using 3D snow on trees in a winter setting. How cool would it be to see literal snow texture on your collection of paintings? These micro paintings are highly collectible for the holidays, as their hand size makes great stocking stuffers.
I showed this to my boyfriend, who asked "What made you think to just go and grate paint," and I remembered that I was looking up pictures of how to paint a geode, and this agate tutorial came up that showed how to freeze and grate clay, roll it together to mix it into a lighter color, crumple up wax paper and wrap the clay around that like an egg roll, add a darker clay layer, bake that hard, cut slices to form geode rings where the wax paper makes a natural uneven layer on the inner rings where you then glue glitter to resemble a crystally looking geode.
Well this gave me the idea to try and grate dried paint. It didn't work, so tried grating this Light Molding Paste, and that didn't look crystally either BUT... it did look like snow, which gave the 3D idea for a scene of winter trees with snow sprinkled on them that's made entirely out of paint to keep the medium all acrylics, which keeps the value high and materials from degrading unlike other mixed-media art.