Drop and Drag.......................

Drop and Drag was the second exercise that we learned in the Karen Rosasco workshop last week. I loved it and it offers a real element of surprise.

Pretty much what it is, again working with Golden's Fluid Acrylics, you drop and swirl paint around watercolor paper (using 3 colors) and then apply a strip of one last color across the whole top sheet of the watercolor paper. Using a long, flat scraper tool, start dragging the paints downward. We actually used two sheets of watercolor paper and the bottom sheet was used to catch the last swipes of paint which we saved for a future project :)

What occurs are these wonderful and surprising shapes of colors and what we, as students, had to do was study the shapes and decide what we think the shapes represent. It took me awhile but I felt that my shapes looked like a bridge with tall buildings behind it. New York City, at night, came to my mind. The tricky part is once you decide what your shapes represent, you must paint around the shapes with a darker color to outline your painting.

We added line work by scraping with a cut-up credit card, I added some gold leaf in certain areas, some various lines with dimensional paint, masked the building areas and splattered some gold metallic paint on the sky with a toothbrush.

For some final embellishments, I stamped the word LIVE and added a script stamp to bottom right. I really love this technique and plan on creating more!

Artfully yours.....................Marilyn