Description
Make your paintings more personal!
In Acrylic Painting Studio: Using Personal Imagery, Staci Swider shows you, and student Amy Jones, how to incorporate personal designs directly into your artwork with the use of monoprinting and collage. Using a fish design and a heron, she demonstrates drawing symbols onto your underpainting using a squeeze bottle of paint, then pulling prints. Staci then guides you through the process of collaging the monoprinting drawing back into the painting – in this instance, the fish print is collaged into the body of the heron. As Staci demonstrates her ways for painting the heron and the background, you’ll get her tips for integrating the collaged paper, creating a unified composition, and adding finishing touches with pops of oil pastel.
In this video you will:
- Learn to monoprint using easy-to-find supplies.
- Create a seamlessly integrated collage component in the painting.
- Enjoy 62 minutes of premier workshop instruction.
Watch a preview of this video here!
About the Artist
Producing exceptional fine art inspired by craft, Aiken, South Carolina painter Staci Swider’s work reinterprets the patterns and textures found in function-driven objects such as quilts and baskets as dreamscape imagery that straddles the line between figurative and abstract. Staci’s visual history includes stints as both a corporate and freelance textile designer, professional painter and author. Her work has been exhibited at the Morris Museum of Art as well as many galleries across the Southeast. Staci is the author of Acrylic Expressions (North Light, 2016). Find more of Staci’s work at StaciSwider.com.
Materials List
Surface
- 1- 8″ x 12″ canvas
- cold press watercolor paper
Media
- Acrylic paint, variety of colors
- Fluid acrylic paint, red
- Oil pastels, Staci uses Sennelier
- Other Tools and Supplies
- Aileen’s Tacky Glue or other heavy glue
- Assorted brushes
- Pencil
- Plastic bottle with squirt top
- Water container
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