Multimedia Musings

An Art Exhibit by Kate Lagaly

Opening Reception Friday, April 10  

at the Kirby Upstairs Gallery, 213 North Main Street, Roxboro, NC 27573

The exhibit can be seen by appointment through April 28, 2015.  Call - 336-597-1709.  The Kirby Cultural Arts Complex hours are from 1 - 5 Tuesday - Friday and Saturday from 10 - 4.  

The exhibit can be seen by appointment through April 28, 2015.  Call - 336-597-1709.  The Kirby Cultural Arts Complex hours are from 1 - 5 Tuesday - Friday and Saturday from 10 - 4.  

Continuing Watercolor (March & April 2015)

I lifted some of the color with the magic eraser sponge.  I added some orange color starting to put in some of the matted hair shapes.  I used gouache to change the outside texture and made it softer.  The front is too round and the shape needs to be changed (I'll do that next class).  I added some shadows to the face.

I added a few more berries and some shadows and details.

First I wet the barn and painted the gray on the barn.  Next I wet the paper and added some blue and purple (very light) to the front snow.  I wet the sky and added blue and a pink/purple.  After it was dry I re wet the sky area where the trees go and started putting in the trees (and scribbles for bushes) with a purple gray.  There will be more layers of trees.  I wet the windows and added the dark.  I painted the eves under the roof.  The barn needs a warm brown at some point.

Aqueous Acrylic & Gouache (March & April 2015)

Acrylic.  I added dark to the rooster's body.  I worked on highlights and shadows and added details basically drawing with the paint.  I added brown for the eye with a spot of black (it needs highlights still). 

Gouache.  I added highlights and shadows as well as some details.

Acrylic.  I made an orange/brown color for the dishes.  I painted them paying some attention to shadows.I added a glze of the dish color to the white window trim.  I added a blue glaze to the left side.  I added a very light glaze of the orange/brown to the utensils.

Acrylic.  The photo is not good, if I can get a better one I will replace it.  I transferred the drawing with Saral white transfer paper.  I then used white paint and started to paint the highlights.  This is a value study of light on dark.

Continuing Watercolor (March & April)

I wet the sheep and dropped in orange and purple to start getting texture and form (for this "blossoms" are your friend.  A blossom forms when you drop water into a wash that is starting to dry which creates a texture).  I used a glaze of cobalt on the background (because the new colors did not go well at all with the background).  I mixed a dark to add the face details and added a few more shadows.  After this dried I removed the masking.  I had some areas to fix and adjust (as always with masking and have not finished this).

I painted a few more of the blueberries and leaves.  I added more blue rather than green berries than in the photo.  I am working to get a variation in greens (from yellow to blue) as well as values in the leaves.  I used a wet brush to work on some of the color from the background that had pooled at the edges.  It is coming along.

Aqueous Acrylic & Gouache (March & April 2015)

Acrylic.  I painted the red and let it dry.  Then I started adding highlights and shadows.  This still needs lots of value work (lights and darks/highlights and shadows) as well as details.

Gouache.  I painted the red and the black.

Acrylic.  I painted the white trim and let it dry.  I painted the dark shapes and let it dry.  I then did white over the trim (as I got a bit too dark).I painted the shadows under the table and alongside the window as well as the shadow under the tablecloth.

Acrylic.  I used the paint I had left over from today and painted the background for the next project.  I wet the surface and dropped the color in and moved it around. I wanted it to be a dark color for the next project. 

Continuing Watercolor (March and April 2015)

I transferred the sheep and put masking fluid in the shape of the hairs around the edges to preserve the hairs.

I wet the paper around the sheep and dropped in color making a horizontal pattern.  May do a wash or two over this before I remove the masking (not sure yet).

I transferred the drawing, editing some of the leaves out and making up some when I could not tell what exactly was happening in the drawing.  I wet the background and dropped in burnt sienna and cobalt.  This photo was taken with my phone in class, so the colors are not correct.

I worked on a few berries.  I wet the blueberry, dropped in the color paying attention to the highlights and shadows.  While it was still wet I added other colors for either shadows or color details.  I worked on a few leaves wetting them first and adding the yellow and green or the blue greens depending on the color in the photo.  The leaf colors vary quite a bit.

Aqueous Acrylic and Gouache (March and April 2015)

Acrylic on a canvas panel (prepped with flat white house paint).  First I wet the panel and dropped in color.  Then I added sea salt when it was shiny, but not a puddle.  After that was dry I removed the salt and I transferred the drawing.  Then I painted the black part of the rooster with a medium-dark gray.

Gouache on paper.  I wet the paper, applied color, and put scrunched plastic wrap on top.  I left this until it was dry.  I will use this to paint a gouache rooster.

First I drew a square where the window would be placed.  Then I wet the square and added the landscape colors.  After this was dry I did the outside of the square with a warm gray.  I spritzed it with a fine water spray after it was starting to dry.  After it was dry I transferred the drawing.

Continuing Watercolor (January and February 2015)

I worked on this adding more values and highlights as well as a bit of color.  I worked mostly on the top portion as I had not done much there before now.  I added a dry brush texture to the background and a bit more linen texture to the cloth.