Faux Organic Surprises

First thing I had to do today was check and see if art work by this particular artist by the name of Sage Bray was ever featured on this blog. My goodness … no, she hasn’t been. How could she have been overlooked for so long?

Answer: Easily! And on purpose.

Not that I don’t like affirmation that there are some people out there that enjoy my art work but I’ve never been a limelight kinda girl and, besides, I’m overly critical of my own work, always feeling it could have been done better which makes it hard to share sometimes. Still, every once in a blue moon, even the most self-critical artist can be excited about something they’ve done. In this next issue (that starts mailing out next week, the mailing list for the first batch of print issues is going to the shipper’s Thursday morning so get your order in!) I have on article on a series of techniques I only recently developed and am having so much fun with them!

I’d been playing with techniques to emulate weathered and worn textures on and off this year and recently had some surprising results that have opened the door to even more great textures. I have to say I was pretty amazed by the effects. This stuff look very realistic! How cool. Here is article’s header image with a little piece of wall art I created with the techniques. What do you think?

This article is ridiculously packed with 6 basic techniques/skills that can be used to show wear and weathering and 3 faux applications that combine these  (rusted metal, charred wood and weathered wood–all in the piece you see here). And the thing is, what this article shows is just the tip of the iceberg for any adventurous artist who wants to push these techniques (I know I will be in the coming months!)

I’ll see about updating you on my faux organic weathered texture experiments later in the year. In the meantime, be sure to get your Fall issue so you can go play with these too. And then please share them with me if you do! You can post work on our Facebook page or write me at sbray(a)thepolymerarts.com with your artwork, thoughts, comments, criticisms or whatever you feel you need to share … I always love to hear from our readers!