Experiments with YUPO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Here are some quick studies I did on YUPO paper.  I’ve been wanting to try it out for a while.  It’s very strange…painting on a sheet of plastic…seems appropriate material for the times.  Anyway, its kinda’ freaky how the paint just sits on the surface until it dries to a sort of chalky residue. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don’t know if I like it enough to devote hours to learning all the different effects, and means of manipulating paint on it though.  It does offer a luminosity of color that is hard to match on absorbent paper.  Perhaps I’ll try a few without the pen and ink, and see where that leads.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, if I did that I would have to let the layers dry inbetween.  With the pen and ink outlines, it isn’t so crucial if the paint bleeds and mixes.  I hate stopping to wait for paint to dry.  When I want to paint, I want to paint!  I don’t want to sit and wait, or stop and come back.  I think that is why I gravitate towards acrylics.  They dry so fast, I can just keep working and working.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Ah, patience grasshopper…”    I have much to learn.