Experimental grounds

        

Pastel and acrylic medium on paper, washed with water.

 

These are experinental grounds I made with pastel, painted over and mixed with acrylic medium, and then washed with water, to make a worn surface. I’m pleased with the ones on the left and right, but I don’t like the scribbly one. I like the clear history of movement in some of the lines, and the random and natural looking way they are obscured by being washed away.

 

Alice Anne Ellis