Selassie on Caulked

Mixed media art is a favourite of mine to explore and observe by other artists. I am always in awe at the way people use materials, how an idea can evolve and be realised. I began began working on a mixed media project by accident. In my post about my screening mishaps I mentioned the one I did with Haile Selassie's speech. Well I had that canvas staring at me, taunting me day to day, so I had to do something. At the same time I was doing research on transfer techniques, something I absolutely love doing. So I came up with this idea to do something on the speech canvas.

The end result was this

I achieved the look by silver spray paint for the borders, sand for a little texture, then I poured resin over it because when I did the transfer I still wanted the words to come through, plus really empha sizing the layered effect. Then caulk transferred an image of the Lion of Judah, which was then painted with green food colouring and sealed in Mod Podge before doing the image transfer of Selassie.

Unintentionally the sand makes the star on his jacket appear gold. I have to cover it with another layer of resin then it would be done, but it has been raining here like the dickens and I like to do resin work when the weather is dry.

See yall soon

kreative kam