more interlacing
I finished my second interlacing. This one gave me some challenges with the very straight edges that really needed to be crisp because of the contrasting coil that would interlace through it in the end. Once I got all the edges crisp with the acrylic paint I was able to use oil paint to put in the shadows where the coil intersects itself. Then I drew in the new organic coil and finally decided to painting it teal. I wasn't sure what color I wanted to make it so when I was going through my colors trying to find an opaque color (so that I would only have to paint to coil in one layer) I found this teal that I had never used before, and since it is my favorite color I decided to use it (I'm not sure how I went all this time without painting with my favorite color, though I do think there will be more paintings with this color in the future.
I also finished this, my third interlacing. I wasn't sure about keeping it this split pea green, but the more I worked with is I realized that I really liked it. I did decided to keep it more simple and left out any shading, giving the definition in the intersections by adding a pencil out line. The very last layer was just an oil green glaze that I just put around the boarder to make it stand out.
This is not done yet, but almost. This is the one that I had wanted to make red, but got frustrated with pink and decided to make it grey-black-and-white. I got to the grey but I needed to white wash the design (that's the first picture) to get rid of the pink that was still showing through. I was getting ready to paint it black when I found that my Prussian blue was very dark, almost black, and I thought that would be much more interesting than just black. But then I had a new problem in that grey would look awful with the blue but I had already done a blue interlacing and didn't want two. While have this dilemma I found that I had a red that didn't turn pink when glazed over white. I put this over the whole design which mixed with the blue to make a rich purplish black. Now I am working on putting in shadows.
These two got the backgrounds finished with a layer of oil paint. I like the way they turned out because I decided to not make a solid color backgrounds but ones that have a slight variation. The yellow one starts almost white in the center and then fades out to bright yellow on the edges. The orange one starts in the center with a very red-orange and fades to having a very yellow-orange on the edges. Now all I have to go over the coils with an oil layer and these will be done too. But I still need two more for the whole project.
