12 x 24 canvas. Mixed media + Acrylic paint
I used this one mainly for the ocean reference.
I took these photos with my own camera to use as references for my painting. I couldn't decide which clouds I loved the most and the moon is extremely bright in the images. There was no good way to capture the lowlight of the moon. Taken at 12am at night.
This is the moon, I promise. My phone camera is just not great hahaha.
image from the walk through the dunes to get to the beach.
Acrilyc on Canvas- technically also Mixed Media.
This is a painting of Tybee Islands North Beach. I used no stock images for this painting. I actually used my own photos.
I have attached my own photos to this post. Please feel free to use the photos for your own references if you like. Just dont use my painting please.
The canvas is reused and recycled. Originally it was given to me when I was 13 years old by my grandfather. Somehow, on the underpainting, pink highlighter had been drawn on the canvas. This highlighter would bleed through any paint or white gesso I put on it.
In order to keep it from tarnishing my final painting, I took gesso and I pasted some old gift wrapping paper overtop the canvas. I waited til it was dry, and finished with another layer of gesso to seal the paper in place.
Then, I went in and painted the underpainting and started adding detail. The biggest issue with this 'fix' was trying to make the lines of the gift wrap disappear into the canvas. The gift wrap bubbled and twisted a lot in the gesso. I liked the texture it made. I ended up suing matte heavy gel medium to create texture to hide the gift wrap and also pushed out bubbles while it dried. In the end, I feel that between the dark colors of the paint and the medium, I was able to hide it. There are a few spots were the canvas pushes up from the wrapping, but I feel it adds to the painting.
