Wendy Cevola - The Eyes Have It ....Black velvet is finished.

Beautiful work - as always!

I really like the feel of this piece. I'm learning a lot from watching your step-by-steps. Thanks for the inspiration!

coldwarspacemonkey I haven't done my black velvets in the traditional way of light strokes on the fabric. If you are on facebook Gwen Rosewater does fantastic BV paintings. She posts finished pieces, there. I've requested steps by steps, but she may be too busy to offer that. I'm glad if mine will inspire you to pick up a brush or pen and to go to work. There's a lot of joy in doing art.

Thanks for the tip! I'm not on FB, Tiki Central is about as close as I come to social media, but a quick search on line showed some of her work. Good stuff! My experience is mainly traditional oil on canvas - this will be a change - but I'm getting ready to give it a shot.

BTW - Happy Birthday! (I think we share the same one.)

Nice velvet work Wendy.

Just do it CWSM...I have been doing it on Black Bristol to get a feel of the light/dark-reverse negatives....to me it's kind of the opposite of traditional

C

coldwarspacemonkey Happy Birthday CWSM! I think it's fun to have an 8/8 as a birthday. I started with oil paints and after years of cleaning brushes with solvents changed to acrylics. The main difference with Black Velvet is that you paint from the front to the back because you can't paint over existing paint or it will show up. So different from back to front.

I hope you will take progress photos to share.

Or Got Rum? Thank you. It's fun to do one for our home. Easier too.

Thanks Wendy! I picked up supplies yesterday, so I'll get this kicked off shortly. The only foam board available had a peel and stick adhesive on one side - have you ever used this to adhere the velvet? If anything worth looking at comes from the first attempt I'll post some photos.

OGR - thanks for the encouragement!

-Nelson

[ Edited by coldwarspacemonkey on 2024-08-09 03:36:57 ]

Well guess what, I didn't know such a thing existed. If you can make it work that would be wonderful. Something new for all of us. Just find the way to brush the velvet to make it feel soft and then start with the fabric at the top of the foam board and wipe the cloth down making it adhere. No wrinkles allowed! You need 4 hands!

Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Hopefully it won't be too much of a problem on a smaller piece, say 8" x 10", but I wouldn't want to try it on anything much larger. Not sure even 4 hands would be enough!

Sorry I missed your birthday--I was at the Iowa State Fair that day and ate a pork chop on a stick for you.

coldwarspacemonkey I'm looking forward to seeing what you do.

Hamo I celebrate the entire month, so you didn't miss it at all. Thank you, funny thing is Dan and I were just talking about pork chops today and now I find your message. Could be we get some this week! On a stick would be different!

Love it

Hope you don’t mind if I repost it on this page so I could see it

Always fun to see your name pop up.