Pentecost this year was very creative for me!
I was able to attend a 3-days-workshop at the art studio of Arti Lemon (artbylemon.com) about oxidation processes in painting. Arti is a painting artist specialising in rust, ink, marble flour, bitumen and some more techniques.
In Arti’s workshop, I learned how to initiate and moderate oxidation processes for mixed media art pieces. Iron becomes rust, other metal particles become patina. The shading depends on many factors such as temperature, humidity and – of course – the sort of chemical you apply to the metals.
As I am primarily a textile artist, I was experimenting with fusing textiles and rust.
These are my “results” so far:
- wallpaper and vintage lace on mdf board
- oxidated silver, copper and iron
- 15 x 15 cm
- vintage lace on mdf board
- oxidated iron, copper
- hand embroidery
- 15 x 15 cm
- pressed dried physalis petals and cloth stripes on mdf board
- acrylic paint, oxidated copper, graphite
- hand embroidery
- 15 x 15 cm
- vintage lace and synthetic gauze on mdf board
- oxidated capper and silver, acrylic ink and acrylic paint
- linocut stamp
- freestyle goldwork
- 15 x 15 cm
- background mdf-board: Chinese paper and acrylic paint
- foreground mdf-board: oxidated iron, acrylic paint and seed pod
- 20 x 20 cm
edit July 2018: I was thrilled to learn that Rusted 2 won second prize in the “All Waterscape” competition of the CAGO (Contemporary Art Gallery Online) within the cathegorie “mixed media”! 🙂