Sunday, January 11, 2015

MICACEOUS IRON OXIDE



A few year's ago, I took a workshop with Myrna Wacknov at Kanuga in North Carolina.  It was great fun and she shared so much information.  One thing I really liked and intended to use was a Golden product called Micaceous Iron Oxide.  It's taken me this long to get around to buying some and then longer before I finally opened it and used it.













Of course, it lends itself to crows!


I painted the crow with the Micaceous Iron Oxide over the painted background of acrylic inks so the painting is all acrylic.  The Micaceous Iron Oxide is a gritty product and you can lay it on thick or thin.  I think I'll play with it again soon...













Detail of the crow.










You never know when something you learn in a workshop turns up in your own work later - sometimes months or even years later.  But you keep the information in your head until it's time.  Thanks, Myrna!

14 comments:

Katherine Harra said...

I love the crow in the blog header, a new painting? Or just a change-up for the new year? The micaceous crow painting is pretty wonderful too. I do love the word itself, even if I doubt I'd get excited about using gritty paint. Micaceous. Terrific word!

Amy Bryce said...

I just shared this w/ my husband, who studied iron oxides for his phd way back in the day :)....lovely crow, like the shape on the loose colors in back!

Barb Sailor said...

I really love this painting - everything - the composition is great as are the colors (red). This new product (for me) is interesting.

The crow in the painting at the top of the blog is wonderful. I can't remember mentioning it before.

Christiane Kingsley said...

Very nice.
Rhonda, can you give us more details about this product and how it could be used.

Carol Flatt said...

That is soooo true, Rhonda! I love the effect you've created with this. Bold, beautiful color!

Jeanette Jobson said...

Sounds like a perfect medium for crows. It looks as if it acts a bit like a resist?

You'll have a wonderful series of crows in all types of mediums and colours.

Lorraine Brown said...

Love the bright colours with your Crow and the iron oxide experiment worked beautifully

http://carolking.wordpress.com said...

Of course you had to paint a crow with your new paint! You did a great job.

debwardart said...

This is fantastic. Enter this in something and win a big, fat prize!

RH Carpenter said...

Katherine, the crow in the blog header is not new, just a change :) The medium (not a paint, but an acrylic medium) is gritty but you can thin it down and get some neat sooty looks with it. I will play more with it.

Amy, hi! Thanks. I'm following your blog but cannot post a comment without being a Google+ member which I am not. But I am watching your work and enjoying it very much and see that you are in the Cincinnati area (I'm in northern KY).

Thanks, Barb, Carol, and Christiane. Christiane, Myrna worked with it in her acrylic paintings and watercolor paintings (she adds collage and everything but the kitchen sink at times to her paintings to get a final result). It can be thinned down with an acrylic medium to get it more sooty looking and thinner - still gritty, though - you can feel it on the paper when it dries. I'll play with it more and give more info...

Jeanette, I painted the background first with acrylic inks and then put the crow on top. I painted straight from the container so it's thick paint on there - which is how I got the spaces showing the color behind. It may act as a resist it you're painting over it - I'll have to try that.

Thanks so much, Lorraine, Carol and Deb! Deb, I think you are giving the painting too much credit here! ha ha

Caroline Simmill said...

Lovely works Rhonda, been looking back over your other posts and you are creating some beautiful works. All the best for 2015!

RH Carpenter said...

Thank you, Caroline. Your recent little gems are gorgeous!!

malcolm said...

Excellent painting. Love the loose background and the textured crow

RH Carpenter said...

Thanks so much, Malcolm, for stopping by and for taking the time to comment. Just saw a few of your pieces and like what I saw - will visit again soon :)