Step 7 – large acrylic painting taking shape and texture (and just a little colour?)
Ok, so the floor’s finished and I must now find a way to create the various shades and textures of black that appear in other areas of the kitchen.
“Salvatore, I’d like to introduce you to Glaze Medium and pearlescent paint, as well as the colours I’ll be adding to separate my blue black gloss-painted kitchen door from the fluorspar flecked charcoal grey black of the worktops and the metallic shiny black of the oven…..” (Yes, I have also developed the rather odd habit of talking to my painting throughout the course of my working day).
A bit experimental, but I’m using a pearlescent medium, combined with a very pale grey paint to under-paint the kitchen work tops and create the fluorspar flecks in the granite.
“Salvatore’s” temporarily spotty kitchen worktops
These will disappear later as I overpaint with darker glazes and dance as they catch the light in the finished painting, but in the meantime it does look rather strange and I have to trust the experiment will work at the time of painting!
The kitchen cupboards prove easier to assemble than an Ikea flat pack and it’s quite nice to have laid some colour on the walls too!
Step 8 – My approach has worked even better than expected so far…
Salvatore takes delivery of his kitchen appliances
and I’m getting quite excited as I add more features to the room, including the appliances and a hint of colour behind the the frosted windows in the door.
The reflected light of the cooker hood is achieved with a dry brush technique over a glazed black wall.
Each completed piece of background brings me closer to the fun stuff in the foreground (why do I always feel like this like this when I’m painting?).
Salvatore is starting to adopt a slightly ivory attitude now too and I’ve reached the point where the picture now makes it’s own argument for the addition of at least a small amount of subtle colour so it’s time to call in my pals for another discussion about our colour palette…
Fortunately, my pals agree with me……..woohoo!!!! Now, where did I put those paints?
You can see the finished colours in all their glory in the KL Art Gallery.