Second Biology Series

I decided to omit the painted dresses from the previous series, choosing instead to incorporate the dress imagery in extruded lines this time around.

Assimilation I, extruded acrylic medium and water-soluble oil on

 panel, 24x18 inches

Above are two different photos of the same painting. The top one gives a slightly better idea of the color, the bottom one shows the relief of the extruded lines quite clearly. 

Once again, I've used pain neuron imagery and the color red to convey meaning. The blue is added for contrast. I used more oils in the body of this painting than in the last series.

The image above shows the third step in the 2nd painting of this series—lines of color were extruded over the drawing that had been transferred onto the coarse modeling paste background.

Next, the above image shows that more color was added using acrylic paint and hard pastels that were diluted with an acrylic wash mix.

 Assimilation II, extruded acrylic medium and paint, water-soluble oil on

 panel, 24x18 inches

A final wash of zinc white water-soluble oil paint is added on top in the above image, and after drying for a day, some of the white is scraped back off of the tops of the extruded lines.This one also has similar imagery and colors to the corresponding painting in the previous series.

Assimilation III, extruded acrylic medium and paint, water-soluble oil on panel, 24x18 inches

I changed the technique and imagery on this one, quite a bit. The imagery is still a brain neuron, but I used a different reference photo, and I changed the way I handled the extruded paint. I had difficulty in getting the color to have enough variation, so I scrubbed off a lot of it in various spots. Although it doesn't show up in the photograph, the medium that's underneath the paint has some kind of material in it that breaks up light, making the bare spots shimmer a little in bright light. This was unexpected, but not a bad thing. 

Though I began to refine my techniques in this second Biology series, the paintings are meant to convey the same ideas as the last series through similar imagery and color.