Rita Kirkman's VOS, EXTRA - Origins of my Underpainting Method

[@tjrollinthedough102]

❤ thanks for sharing your technique. And charm!!!❤❤❤

[@ritakirkman]

Thanks Tiffany, my pleasure!

[@aliciamolloy5948]

Thank you Rita!

[@tjrollinthedough102]

You are a treasure. Thanks for sharing g!

[@ritakirkman]

My pleasure! Thank you!

[@BillieMoan]

Seriously Rita, you are a treasure.

[@ritakirkman]

Aww, thank you so much Billie!

[@agold1702]

Great stuff. Very inspiring!

[@soniagibbs3366]

Hi Rita, I absolutely love your work. I have been following your work for a while, and am interested to try this under-painting method in my soft pastel work, but I have a few questions, which I would be so grateful if you could answer: - How many layers of pastel would this Golden and pumice mix allow? - Is there a similar alternative colour in the Golden fluid acrylic range to the Art Spectrum Terracotta primer? What do you feel would be the closest, or work well with the Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold? - How long would your mixes last for in your jars and tubs? I am a soft pastel artist but have recently started to explore the realm of other mediums. I am interested to create an under-painting like this, but won't need any tooth or primer as my canvases are pre-primed and I wont be using soft pastel. With that in mind: - Can the Golden fluid acrylics be used with water instead of the pumice medium to achieve similar variations in colour? I don't plan to use soft pastel over the top of the acrylic in this instance, so wont need the pumice, but want to achieve an under-painting with varying values such as you do here. Would water work as a substitute or would a different medium be better? Many thanks in advance x

[@ritakirkman]

Hi Sonia, Sorry for the late reply, KZbin never sends me notifications; some glitch in my account 🤨. Replying on the Patreon post is more reliable... The underpaintings I do DON'T hold massive amounts of pastel as some sanded papers can. But I grew up on Canson paper which doesn't hold that much ether and besides, my goal is to NOT cover my underpainting, ;) If you mix a terra-cotta-ish color with the Golden pumice gel, then it will be a transparent mixture, not opaque.... keep that in mind. .. Idk of any specific color, my advice would be to shop around and "color match" visually. I add more mix to my jar of gold primer every couple months. Ive had jars of primers become useless after years of abandonment (some other colors) Various jars will last better than others. I THINK MAYBE putting plastic under the lid when closing it helps, but I'm not really sure. But there's a pop-top plastic container from Dick Blick that I really like, can't remember the name offhand, but the lid is attached and just pops up from one side. Super cheap. Acrylics are water-solvent, so yes water will thin any of them. I'm not much of an "acrylic painter" so I'm not familiar with other acrylic "mediums" though I'm aware that there are some. You could experiment or ask an artist who paints more exclusively with acrylics. :) However, the fluid acrylics are super fluid, made to mix into things (or spay through airbrush) you could just use them as is I would think. But just try things!

[@lorriepaints1490]

Can we have the exact colour you did the rabbit in please

[@ritakirkman]

Hi Lorrie, at that time, I used the Golden brand Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold fluid acrylic color mixed into Golden brand fine pumice gel at approximately a 1/5 color/gel ratio. However, the Quinacridone pigments have since been discontinued. The replacement formula is a blend of Transparent Red Iron Oxide (PR101) and Nickel Azo Yellow (PY150) see heregoldenartistcolors.com/videos/color-mixture-for-discontinued-quinacridone-nickel-azo-gold. The darker color I use was and still is the Art Spectrum brand multimedia primer in the terra cotta color.