For this exercise we are to choose another of our collections and paint an image of it, or an object from the collection onto a 3D surface, such as paper cup, piece of wood, stone, handbag, packaging, conker, porcelain.
I went rummaging about in the garden looking for a piece of wood but ended up with this interesting stone, that was amongst the chippings we used for our pathway last year:
It’s about 2 1/2 ” x 1 1/2″ at the widest points, so quite small. I thought it might be good to try and paint one of the shells, as the indentations towards the front (in the photo) convey the natural grooves and ridges of a small conch.
My reference collection photo was this one:
I figured the best medium to use to paint on this little rock would be the enamel, I used white, metallic bright gold, black, red and lemon. My first idea was to use a dark black/red background.
But after getting hold of some quite fine brushes today, I did a toch up and chose the blue:
This was really fun to do. The subject and the ground it is painted on both have close affinities with each other, so I think it works!
Understanding Painting Media 