Teresa Rogers is an artist inspired by nature and with a wonderful enthusiasm for pattern and design. She loves to experiment with many different methods and in September she showed us some of the techniques that she uses with watercolour paint, watercolour inks, acrylic inks and acrylic paint. She worked on Bockingford paper showing a design of bracken and tree-trunk outlines in pencil.
Teresa finds Daniel Smith sample dot cards useful for testing colours. Dabbing water on a dot releases a small amount of watercolour paint. [The SAA sells the complete collection for £9.60.] She also uses a spray gun or spray bottle, refillable pens and brush pens to apply inks and diluted paint to various supports and even fabric.
Mark-making lays down the background for many of her paintings. She blew puddles of ink in one direction so that it looked like natural shapes. She applied small random shapes using various plastic stencils - some homemade - with pens. Another grid stencil was used with a watercolour spray. Each layer was dried before the next. Beautiful veils of watercolour sprayed on sections of the picture completed the soft, delicate background. Spraying with hairspray (as a fixative) preserved the the background payer. Only parts of the background would be visible in the final painting. Here is one of Teresa's finished paintings constructed in layers from her website: https://teresarogersart.com/
Teresa applied bracken shapes using sword brushes and Golden Open acrylic paint, which stays wet longer than usual. Her acrylic shapes had the background showing through in a subtle way.
Some acrylic pen outlines and some negative shapes strengthened the tree motifs before the end of the session. Teresa would finish the painting at home.
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