“I vary my technique. Sometimes I leave the paint thick and textured and then I may spray water over it to give it a ‘running’ transparency. By using the Atelier Unlocking Formula with the paint I can get the same effect as using water on already dried ink. The difference is that once ink is wet it sharpens and darkens, then dries flat again, so you are working “blind'. With Interactive it stays close to the true colour.

With my art I often take paint off a work as much as apply it, hence I can make a face 'appear' within an already determined background. If I pour unlocking formula straight on to the painted surface it makes an interesting 'fade out ' area, which to an extent, I can control.

For the accompanying work, I latexed out the eyes and teeth of a face in the middle of the painting. (This was removed to reveal white canvas at a later stage.) I worked within the colours to make a face appear. The Interactive was washed down with the mist sprayer so the colours ran into each other. In places where the paint was quite thick I used the unlocking formula to go back in and rework; to remove paint and add paint. I also used particles of Pearl Ex dry pigment which I 'fixed' . The aqua is a pearescent liquid acrylic which has Jo Sonja’s Opal Dust added to give the illusion of opals.”

Artist Jenny Glaze

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