It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. Helen Walton

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Playing with aluminum foil and paint

It is truly summertime in southwest Florida.
We are hot, hot, hot and we are having daily showers amounting to about 3 inches each shower.
So there is no painting on the lanai.  My sweat drips into the paint and I give up after a few minutes.
So we have studio time at the Art Center each Wednesday afternoon.  There have been seven of us and we are each doing something different.  We share ideas and supplies.
This week I was painting on aluminium foil.  Because I was interested in texture, I rumpled the foil into a ball first and then carefully (it tears!) opened it up and used a brayer to spread it out.
Then I used Elmers Spray glue to attach it to a board.

I used transparent paints and the glow of the foil varies with the light on the painting.

And for the fourth of July my Pot. Mem. Mario Lanza #16 was blooming.  I smelled it before I found the blooms.  They have a beautiful faint sweet scent.

Wishing all a Happy PPF.