Ok, fair - I never know what to call things, but I have to call them something right? Well I guess I could go with ‘Blue, green and yellow A5, blah blah” but that’s boring.
Anyway, the plan here was to use a tool I bought the other day - a squeezy bottle of masking fluid with a metal 0.5mm tube to apply it - which I originally planned for text (alright, I admit, I bought it because I have a problem with buying these things!). I thought I could make similar grooves in the gesso, just as I did for the Oceania one but slightly more controlled. Here is what it looked like:
The process was to squeeze some snaking lines of masking fluid across the existing gesso, then apply some more on top. Finally I dug out the latex masking fluid (the small messy pile in that picture) to get the uneven result.
I wanted to mix green and yellow across this uneven surface. My first attempt I actually scraped off as it was so bad - siloxane, acrylic, varnish and all. The second try was … better:
It was a bit dull until I put green paint straight from the tube on top of the silicone layer. Then some more blushes of yellow and blue completed it. Unfortunately the original grooves in the canvas have now been covered! I kind of regret not using just green and yellow, but putting a lot more (and deeper?) grooves, perhaps branching or well who knows.