The theme for this week’s Illustration Friday is “Strength”. I decided to focus on hands. The human hand contain 27 delicate bones that can lift, throw, caress, gesture. Hands convey so much emotion just in themselves.
Hands can also denote strength and this is the image that I decided to focus on. This is actually a gel medium transfer of a printout of a painting that I did earlier this year. A BIG painting. detachment For that painting I was trying to address the absence of caring, detachment, hands off. But in this small panel, I wanted to address the strength it takes to confront what is wrong, what is scary, what is fearful. To reach out and confront all the ugliness and barriers that are out there.
Don’t know if I was successful in doing that, but it was fun using one of my paintings as a gel transfer. hurrah!
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great work! i love the texture and the colours
I love this!! 🙂 The grunginess makes it really interesting.
I reall ylike the gel medium transfer – it adds life to your painting!
I absolutely love this. It has a great emotional feel to it. Cheers!
Very good choice for this topic…the colors are like granite, so they make it feel even stronger. Good job:>
OH MY! this piece is STUNNING,Bridgette!
Stunning is eactly the word that comes to my mind, too. A beautiful piece of work, really, and I compleetly agree with your concept.
Lovely.
This is a very interesting piece. Great job!
Nice style!
Success…Beautiful!
I like this variation. Powerful words to go with it too. Excellent piece.
By the way, can you explain a bit about gel transfer in your blog? Thanks in advance.
Thanks to everyone who took time to comment on my piece! I sincerely appreciate it.
Christine asked me about how I did the transfer. There are many ways to do transfers, but for this one I just used an inkjet printout of my painting and Golden semi-gloss gel medium. Brush a generous amount of the gel medium onto your print. Let dry completely. Once dry, turn it over and wet paper with water. Using your fingertips rub away the pulp of the paper. You need to be careful to no rub too hard or else you may rip the plastic film of the dried gel. Once all the paper is off, you will have a film with the image of your printout on it. magic!
I love it! Very creative!That’s actually really cool.
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