This is a bigger format on canvas, based on a drawing made for Hello Every Sunday, week 7.
Acrylic, pencil and pastel on canvas
It was a test before making an even bigger version on canvas. I wasn’t sure how the technique I use on paper would turn out on canvas.
Since working in small formats, mostly due to a lack of space, I’ve been using acrylic a bit like watercolor, and pencil to create most of the shadows. I like to smudge it to create texture and blurry areas.
This canvas is lot rougher than paper and the pencil didn’t hold well. I had to work with acrylic for the dark sections and shadows, which rendered a cleaner look (I prefer it a bit “dirtier”). I also found out that diluted acrylic is in part repelled on the type of gesso that was applied on this support and I had to paint the surface two or three times before I got where I wanted.
