#acryllic paste

In all the excitement of the portrait gallery, the Easter display, etc. I’d forgotten to post March’s theme - Mountain! 

I always thought I’d do something based around mountain goats for this piece, but I felt an urge to try something new on canvas again. I discovered this method of creating mountains with a textured and regular acrylic paste! It was liberating to just let my palette knife do the work and not worry about detailed line-art. Especially since my chosen subject, the Rainbow mountain in Peru, complex in terms of structure - just its colours.

I discovered that when you mix acrylic paint with bicarbonate of soda, it creates this perfectly fine sandy/stony texture. Helping make the perfect little mountain egg. 

Everyone in the art group was amazing with this prompt. It’s hardly a surprise why mountains are often such a favoured topic for artists.  I suppose we were all in our element, in a way, even while trying somehting new. 

As seems to be custom I decided to bake something I around the them - ‘Rocky Mountain Cookies’. I doubled the amounts from what the recipe state and somehow ended-up baking 90 Cookies! Not that anyone was complaining: From my art group, neighbours, local kids, relatives and some of their friends - everyone all got some. To the point where they’re almost starting fights to get them before they run out! One friend compared them to Eris’s golden apple, or that I’m the baking equivalent of Walter White because of how addictive they were. Heh… Baking Bad.