Showing posts with label pigment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pigment. Show all posts

Earth and Iceland

I've just dumped this set into the trash.
Generally, after the client gets their image, thats the way it goes.
 It filled my garage, took 2 days to cure and looked perfect: sculpted with carpet, roofing composite, concrete and orchre pigment, I built a minature Elah Valley for the fall of Goliath.  I can't show you the final image until it is published, but trust me, it will be award winning!












                                       OK, here is a tiny snip:














I seem to be drawn to tuscany tones.  Russets, amber, ochre and sienna. I am constantly picking up trinkets and iron relics to display on shelves, prop open a door, tack onto a fence, or wedge into a tree elbow.  Remembrance of things past.  A sense of antiquity.

But in this grey NW environment, these hues never ever make it onto my walls.  I subscribe Only to an icelandic palette and use primarily iced grayed whites for my wall.
And despite convention, I have no problem using a semi gloss on a plaster wall or a hi-gloss on the ceiling.  I Love mixing finishes.  One hue, used with different lusters, will create subtle mutations of reflecting light within a room as the quality changes through the seasons.


multiple finishes will take one hue in multiple directions.
















it took me weeks to actually match these colors.