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  • 1) Creating an original painting in acrylic on canvas

    Posted on November 26th, 2009 7 comments

    View or buy my paintings here: members.shaw.ca Shows how I’m beginning to create one of my paintings on canvas. I am holding the camera in one hand while painting with my other hand. I put the canvas on the floor and bend over it when I paint. I paint from imagination and don’t look at any models or sketches – I just start painting on a blank canvas like you see in this video, inventing the image as I create it – it feels like the image is creating itself when I paint. You can see the …

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    7 responses to “1) Creating an original painting in acrylic on canvas” RSS icon

    • i love it!!!

    • love the painting and I am most intrigued by the one at the back on the rt hand side towards the end of the video. I visited your website, your work is so wonderful!

    • MartinaPaintings

      Thanks, I’m happy you like it – you have some cool paintings in your videos as well!

    • cosmicheartcentre

      i love how you allow the paint to drip and then just spread intuitively it into a form.

    • MartinaPaintings

      Thanks, I think it’s important for an artist to allow the inspiration to flow freely which basically means getting ‘out of the way’ as much as possible. Sometimes it really feels like my hand just moves by itself and I’m only an observer :)

    • MrPASHproductions

      what does wiping it with a wet cloth do?

    • MartinaPaintings

      it removes some of the paint


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