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I've been posting the progress on three paintings during the last five days that I've been in the studio. The latest thing I did to one of them was to put some molding paste in different areas of the canvas. This is essentially acrylic medium with ground pumice stone in it. When it dries, it looks like plaster, but when it's wet you can press things into the paste and it will retain the imprint of the material. So I took a piece of printmaking scrim and rolled it with a brayer to press it into the molding paste: I took a close-up picture, in which you can see the imprint of the mesh from the scrim: It takes a day to dry, after which I can stain it, paint on it, add more texture -- anything, really.   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader

First, thank you to the two new people who signed up to follow this blog via Facebook. Next, I didn't like the way that painting dried, so I poured some thinned white acrylic paint over it: And then poured some silver paint into the white: The acrylic skins dried perfectly, and came away from the plastic sheeting very easily: I laid one of them in the middle of a dried painting to see how it would look: I don't think this particular element works for this picture. But I'm going to save the 'skins' for a painting in which they might work.   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader