Thursday, July 2, 2015

Art-C Groove Tool with Stencils



To test my new Art-C Groove Tool with its brush head, I started with Carolyn Dube's  Scribble-Scratch Handwriting Stencil.

ABOVE: THE STENCIL HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE BLANK CANVAS.
 
ABOVE: RED ACRYLIC PAINT HAS BEEN APPLIED THRU THE STENCIL. 
I forgot to take an "after" shot of the canvas right after the stencil had been lifted -- trust me, it turned out great -- so I promptly reached for another canvas and another stencil.  This time I chose Maria McGuire's Doodle It Tornado Bloom and placed it on the second canvas, which was an artwork already in progress --

ABOVE:  MARIA'S STENCIL HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE CANVAS. 
 
ABOVE:  THE ART-C GROOVE TOOL HAS BEEN USED TO APPLY TITANIUM WHITE ACRYLIC PAINT. 

ABOVE:  THIS CLOSE-UP SHOWS THE AREA OF THE PAINTING WHERE I USED THE TOOL , AFTER MARIA'S STENCIL HAD BEEN LIFTED.  THERE WAS NO PAINT SEEPAGE UNDER THE STENCIL; THE DESIGN CAME OUT CRISP AND CLEAR.
My thanks to Cindy Powell, my friend in Utah, who went to a store in her area, bought the tool for me, and shipped it here to NJ! 

Since the Art-C Groove tool also comes with a sponge head and two abrasive heads, I plan to use it later in the subtractive technique -- using a stencil, of course. 

Below is a photo of the first canvas, after it was finished.  On the final layers, several times, I re-used Carolyn's Scribble-Scratch Handwriting Stencil .