on the home stretch

Yesterday my dad came over to my place in the morning so we could take my paintings over to cit in his car. The 122x120cm paintings didn't fit inside so I wrapped them up and we attached them to the roof rack. When we got to cit Paul helped me with attaching strips of wood to the backs for them to hang by. I took some pics coz they looked quite cute and funny with Christine's rabbit's as weights. Thanks Christine! :)
I spent most of the day working on the second big painting that i started a couple days ago with 2 big scabs on it. Here's my whole process:
1. Some layers of gesso
2.layer of black
3. rough blue/white/black layer to offer a variance in shades coming through my next layers.
4. Clear impasto gel textured with my hands.
5. Red/yellow/orange/brown smoothed over with my hands.
6. Orange wash
7. Red wash
8. Modelling paste used to create 3D scabs
9. Splashes, drips etc put roughly over painting with red and brown paints
10. another layer of textured impasto
11. Scabs painted with brown, black, red, yellow. Took ages of applying layers and changing it to look right. Ran out of time in the end and I needed to look at it with fresh eyes so stopped.
12. Also had to paint around scabs again to fix where I had gotten the scab colours on the skin. Need to go over again because it looks funny now.
13. Put some splashes over top of impasto to have some rough matte contrast the shiny.
14 put it upside down on small blocks because still wet and attached the strips of wood for hanging.

Hopefully I will have time to do my finishing touches on Monday.

Tessa.