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Painting Makeover: From Landscape to Red Tulips

3/9/2020

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I have been marbling (using watered down acrylics sprinkled into a tray filled with carrageenan) since I discovered this magical technique way back in 2006. As I transitioned from painting in watercolors to painting in acrylics (on paper or canvas), I looked through piles of my old watercolor paintings and decided to marble over them and give them a whole new look.

One of my more successful "do-overs" was a neutral toned landscape. I chose a reddish brown color to do the initial marbling, and then, as you can see in the images below, I rotated the painting to make it a vertical. Responding to what I saw on the paper, I composed a diagonal grouping of red tulips and did freehand painting using diluted washes of acrylic, making sure I varied my reds.

At the very end, I wasn't satisfied with the bright green leaf I'd painted in, so I collaged a piece of marbled paper onto that leaf shape and the piece was finished. I posted it on facebook and a client bought it right away!  "Red Tulips and Green"; acrylic marbling/collage on paper, 10 x 14".
4 Comments
Linda Sterrett-Marple
3/9/2020 01:06:34 pm

Fascinating & enlightening how you DO that. That final marbled collage leaf was genius! The green too loud & voila Fixed!💜 Gorgeous!!

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Mary Ann
3/10/2020 01:10:16 am

So you just painted the marbling look on by hand?

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Liz Walker
5/31/2020 02:16:30 pm

Hi Mary Ann,
I painted the watercolor painting first by hand. Then I applied the acrylic paints to the marbling tray (where they float) and then I dipped the treated watercolor painting into the tray, where it lifts off the marbled pattern from the tray TO the painting. Then I let it dry off, and later I go back in with acrylic paints and paint the flowers free hand. Hope that makes sense!

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2/2/2021 08:24:25 pm

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