Painting of the "Queen" is Complete!

Yippee!  After finishing the painting with the dyes and acrylic paints, dry pigments and inks, I gathered my paintstiks, stencils and rubbing plates to add the final painted textures and details. I like doing this as the final step because it not only adds visual detail and texture, but also adds quilting guidelines that I don't have to remove later :) !  An added plus is the shimmer from the iridescent paint... it makes the best bubbles!  The rest of the details will be added with the quilting.

So, now the whole quilt top has cured, been heat set, washed(to remove the chemical residue from heat setting the oil paint) and laid out to dry on the studio floor.

I also squared up the top and marked that, but did not cut it yet...I'll trim it  along my marked lines after quilting.  She measures 92 1/8 " x 94 6/8"  before quilting.  I'll lose a few inches due the dense quilting,but she'll still be quite large.

Now to the pictures...click to enlarge them. I know the angle is weird from taking the picture on the floor...



some of the detail from the rubbing plate on the rock formation



I used this plate



and in the water from this plate



and I made some"wave" stencils



and used them randomly in the background



and commercial circle stencils for bubbles



here



and here and all over



for texture in the sand this rubbing plate



and this piece of torn card stock and some shell stencils



Tomorrow, she gets loaded onto the frame and the real fun begins!