Marking Cloth and Canvas - Week Forty-Four

An old family napkin

dyed

ripped

marked with stitch

A not so old painter's drop cloth

dotted

spotted

marked in play

Even when painting I can't get away from 

simple shapes

soft greys and browns

and of course

marks that could be stitches

Not so many layers of colours here

but what I learnt

was that I prefer the marks to be a lighter value

rather than darker

An old acrylic painting completely covered

then marks were made by

scraping into the top layer of oils.

I'm trying to teach myself to paint with oils

Exploring mark making with oils

Most of the time I end up with mud!

I am still a stitcher!