mixed media seascapes by regina valluzzi

Mixed Media Seascapes - Highlights by Dr. Regina Valluzzi

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Deco Beach, 12 x 12 inches. Acrylic with mixed media. Sold, giclee prints available

Almost all of my seascapes are available as giclees, through Print on Demand

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Green Sea, 24 w x 36 h inches, Acrylic with glass.

Available through the G19 Gallery, Rockport, MA (978) 290-1411

Wave pattern,12 x 12 inches, acrylic with glass, mica and sand


Reinventing the Seascape, Capturing different dimensions of the Sea

Acrylic painting media have a high degree of glassy transparency. They also are compatible with a variety of

other media. The transparency of acrylics allows an artist to create deep layers of undulating sheer

color. Because these layers are not entirely flat, they change as the viewer's perspective changes. The effect is

not exactly like rippling water, but it can be used to create a feeling of lively movement and immediacy in a

painting.

Detail from By The Beautiful Sea, extrusion and pouring techniques using tinted acrylic gel media

create complex glassy films of color resembling water

Because acrylic painting media come in a variety of thicknesses (or viscoelastic properties if you're an

engineer), there are several ways to create unique patterned glassy film. I use a combination of acrylic

extrusion and liquid in liquid pouring techniques. Extruded films and tinted patterned paint and media that are

squeezed though a nozzle. The result is a soft structurally stable ribbon of three dimensional paint. Golden

Heavy Gel has enough structural integrity to actually span small gaps, and "air space" can be added to a

painting. When these ribbons dry, they retain their shape and integrity. Depending on the paint to media ratio

the ribbons can be transparent and glassy, sheer, or opaque with a more "plastic" look and feel.

Detail from Water Ribbons, in progress (not the final version). Extruded ribbons of acrylic have

different shapes depending on the nozzle used in extrusion. They dry to form three dimensional

structures. The finishes range from clear and glassy to sheer, to opaque and "plastic"

Poured layers can also be used to create a thick glassy film, either alone or in combination with extruded

structures. When used in combination, the extruded structures control the flow of the liquid. Highly fluid

media will tend to mix together through diffusion. By selecting media of different viscosities (thicknesses),

diffusion and mechanical (convective) mixing can be controlled. These properties are used to create soft foamy

patterns, complex sheer swirls and layered streams within the films. I have also developed some specialized

liquid into liquid pouring techniques that produce predictable complex patterns in thick acrylic liquid pours.

Detail from Dawn Eddies. Several different liquid acrylic techniques were used to create the complex

layered patterns in this abstracted seascape. The lower layer is primarily liquid paint swirled into liquid

media. The snaking striped patterns used a specialized technique I developed with Golden's clear tar

gel. The high elasticity of the gel liquid creates periodic flow instabilities with zig zag or sinuous

patterns.

There are also materials that are compatible with acrylic that help bring light into a painting. Glass lenses and

retroreflective spheres can actually cast light into the clear acrylic film. These glass elements create light

effects that move with the viewer and with changing light sources. Mica, metal foil, metal powder and

reflective media also manipulate light in a painting. In several of my seascapes I use reflective media like mica

and foil under a sheer layer of color to create subtle shimmering effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroreflector

Detail from Rhapsody on the Sea. Sheer layers of acrylic over mica and reflective metal foil create

subtle glimmering movement in the painting. Retrreflective spherical glass beads provide the

appearance of bubbles and also create interesting light and lensing effects.

Flip pigments are multicoated pigment particles with nanolayers of different refractive index coating the

pigment. They provide the same type of directional dependent color change as the rainbows that you see in an

oil slick on water. Because the layered coatings on the particles are precisely engineered the color change is

also more distinct and precise. These pigments can be used to create flickering rippling movement effects, or

broad glowing movement.

Detail from Golden dawn. Flip pigments change colors depending on viewer angle and create motion.

These hi-tech pigments are combines with acrylic extrusion and holographic flakes.

Of course, to make all of these ideas and techniques actually work as a seascape requires an awareness of the

composition, color range, gradations of hue and intensity and other aspects of seascapes and shorelines. The

relative simplicity of seascape compositions opens up a range of possibilities for experimentation.

Front Rolling In, 24 w x 18 h inches. Acrylic with mixed media


Water Ribbons, 20 w x 16 h inches, acrylic with mixed media


Islands and Surf, 36 w x 24 h inches, Acrylic with mixed media


Abstract Sunset, 10 w x 8 h inches, Acrylic with mixed media


Golden Dawn, 10 w x 8 h inches, Acrylic with Mixed media


Breakers, 36 w x 24 h inches Acrylic with mixed media. SOLD. Prints available


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Dawn Eddies, 12 w x 9 h inches, acrylic with mixed media


By the Beautiful Sea, 30 w x 24 h inches, acrylic with mixed media


Rhapsody on the Sea, 48 w x 36 h inches, Acrylic, ink, mica, foil and glass with mixed media


Solid, Liquid, Gas, 14w x 11 h inches, ink on paper


Bubble beach, 10 w x 8 h inches, ink on paper

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Low Tide, 36 w x 24 h inches, Acrylic with mixed media



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Sandy Dune, 12 x 12 inches, Acrylic with mixed media


Bubbling Beach, 12 x 12 inches, Acrylic with sand mica and glass



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