Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Arctic Suminagashi Polar Bear

First effort at using suminagashi technique for adding interest to my painitings.  Definitely looking into more work with this technique.  Suminigashi is created by taking a waxy ink, oil paints, or even fingernail enamels, floating them on the top of water in a large, flat pan, then using a brush or chopstick to drag the pigments into patterns.  Then drop a dry or slightly moistened semi absorbent paper on top of the water, and peel the paper up slowly.  It's a transfer technique with paint floating in water.  In Italy, it's also called marbling; in Turkey, the name translates to "clouded paper."   Great overview article in wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_marbling\