Mixed Media Flower Art Painting, Poppies “THREE REDS AND A YELLOW” by Colorado Mixed Media Artist Carol Nelson

This painting is done in the faux batik style. After painting the flowers, a layer of wax was applied as a resist. After gently crumbling the waxed painting, a darker color was pushed into the cracks. After ironing to melt the wax, a beautiful lacy pattern appears.


 6"x12"x1" Acrylic on Panel/Available

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"Batik Poppies 2" 13026, faux batik flower poppies © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"Batik Poppies 2"

This is another demo painting from my workshop last week in Raleigh, North Carolina.


There is a rather involved process to this painting.  The original painting is done on lightweight rice paper, which is then waxed, crumpled, and repainted with darker tones.  Then it is ironed to melt the wax.  The second round of painting, after the crumpling, shows up as tiny lines and fissures in the painting, similar to batik.

One is left with a faux batik painting on thin rice paper, which is then mounted on watercolor paper, then mounted on a canvas for display.  For more information on this painting, click here to go to my website.

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"Poppylicious" acrylic poppy floral faux batik © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Poppylicious

I know it's a silly title, but I like it.  I've done so many poppy paintings, I'm getting a little desperate for titles.

I had a student last week who wanted to learn faux batik, the process where we use wax as a resist.  After cracking the wax, color is reapplied to the painting, but it only goes in where the wax is cracked.  This gives an unpredictable lace-like filigree to the painting.

For more information, click here to go to my website.

"AUTUMN PALETTE" 12089, acrylic faux batik tree landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Autumn Palette

This is a second demo I did for my class on faux batik.  (See previous post for explanation of the process.)  The random blotches, spots, and lines are a result of the color applied after the wax layer has been cracked.

The random way this occurs is what is fascinating to me.  For more information, click here to see my website.

"BATIK POPPIES" acrylic faux batik floral poppy painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Batik Poppies

This is a demo I did for my Denver art class of the process of faux batik.  I've always been fascinated with the batik process using fabric and dye with wax providing a resist to successive dye layers.  This modification of the batik process is done with acrylic paint on rice paper.

It consists of seven steps:  paint the subject on rice paper, brush melted wax over the painting, crumble the painting to create cracks in the wax, glaze on another layer of contrasting color, iron the paper between sheets of newsprint to melt off the wax, paint on a layer of gloss medium, correct/define details.

Of course, I love the unpredictability of where the cracks in the wax will allow the glaze layer to show.  If you do it right, you will have a fine webbing of color coming through the cracks.

Click on the image to see the batik webbing better.  For more information, click here to go to my website.

"BLUE BLISS," 12043, acrylic hydrangea flower painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Blue Bliss

detail shot showing gold threads

This is a demo painting using the faux batik method.  I used rice paper that has gold threads (also comes in silver) running through it.  You can also see the fine lines created in the batik process.

For more information, please click here to go to my website.

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Over the weekend, I taught a two day workshop for the Heritage Fine Arts Guild in Denver.  There were 21 student artists in the class, which is more than I prefer in my workshops because it's so hard

to give everyone the personal attention they need.

Here's a few of the mixed media abstracts they created after learning all about combusted foils, tyvek, Custom Patch stencils, foam plate abstracts, and lots of other techniques and materials.

"TECHNICOLOR TREES" 11075, colorful fall aspen trees © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Technicolor Trees

This painting was done using a "faux batik" process using wax and fluid acrylic paints on imported rice paper.  The rice paper has an embedded silver thread that shows through here and there (not visible in photo.)

For more information, please click here to go to my website.