Circle Mosaic Paintings – Part 5

Tonight I finally had time to work on my paintings again.  It took 2½ hours just to add one color [raspberry]!  Holy cow:

Part of the problem was the color wasn’t opaque enough, so I had to apply 3 coats.  Another problem was I ran out of my custom mixed color halfway through and had to mix another batch, color-matched to the first batch.  Never the easiest thing!  The raspberry I created was a mix of “Primary Red”, “Primary Blue”, & “Titanium White”:

I have a bunch left over, so I slid the piece of glass I use to mix paint on* into a ziplock, and will use it again tomorrow night, but mixed to a darker purple.  I mixed the paint with a palette knife, which I used to create a tent so the bag wouldn’t stick to the paint too much:

Here are the individual paintings:

       

       

And some close-ups:

        

        

As you can see, I’ve been sprinkling the wet paint with a fair bit of fairy dust as I go, which gives them a sparkle.  I like sparkly things!  I got the fairy dust in upstate New York years ago.  It’s basically super-fine glitter in a cute little glass jar.  It used to have a cork which disintegrated a long time ago, so I use a red marble as a top now:

       

As you can see in the close up, it’s got a blue tint to it.  I love this stuff!

* I use the panes of glass that come in picture frames to mix paint on, and paint from.  Over the years I’ve accumulated 4, all the same size [roughly 5×7″].  They work awesome for mixing colors, and they clean super easily.  Just soak them in hot water for 10 minutes and the paint slides right off.