Working with decorative filler

For my final piece in the GCSE surrealism project, I am producing a painting on an a1 canvas board. In order to create a texture and add depth to my piece, i used decorative filler. This is a fairly cheap, easy, mess free way of getting a textured finish to paintings, and her are the results! By using a paintbrush i spread the filler over the desired areas to the right thickness, left it to dry overnight and painted over it when it was ready. Obviously, this piece is half done, so make sure you stay online for when i post the finish piece! I hope you like my work, and stay creative :) 

Painting with acrylics, ink and drawing in biro

Surrealist morph

For the final piece in this surrealism project, we are required to produce a morphing piece. My ideas were inspired by Jim Warrens work, a famous American surrealist artist.

Some of his work:

I decided to create my piece inspired by his work because i loved the combination of faces and other backgrounds. Here is my planning and media tests so far:

Acrylic painting

Acrylic and ink painting

Biro pen sketch

stay online for my next post of the final piece ! I will also be using decorative filler underneath my acrylic painting when i paint it on canvas board to give it texture and a 3D look, so I will also create a post on how to use that technique.

I hope you liked my paintings, and as always, stay creative :)