Painting Mary

This was an experiment.

I recycled an old 8X10 canvas pad, which

as you know is simply cardboard with a canvas glued on,

beginning by carefully sanding off the original art which I THINK

was an oil pastel.

Felt like it.

Then I slathered some regular gesso on it
to retooth it,  

 cut an old blue-toned artpiece I had printed on cardstock

into squares and glued it onto the dry gesso

with Weldbond, my fav glue.

After that, I covered it with a glaze of yellow ochre.

 

Then.....when it was thoroughly dry

 

THE HEART OF MARY

 

I covered it with clear gesso (because

I wasn't sure if the water-based acrylics

would hold up on the cardstock),
then painted her with acrylics

and this is the result.

After this picture was scanned, I did add

a layer of mod-podge, to give it

a good seal.

I thought maybe the lines created by the overlapping

cardstock squares might detract from

the painting itself, but I kind of like it.

 

 

 

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