Over the last few weeks I've started a new candy themed art project for a series of fine art photograph/mixed media piece called "
Senses". The theme of this piece is texture and marshmallows. You can read about our past progress
here and
here.
I'm now at the experimental part of my art piece. A large portion of this piece requires me to make a synthetic melted marshmallow that never degenerates. If I use real marshmallow, in a few weeks it will get pretty gross. I've decided to use acrylic paint mediums (gel medium, modeling paste, and a gloss varnish) and some white acrylic paint.
The goal is to make a small amount to see if it dries looking like melted marshmallow. The first thing I need to do is mix up the four elements adding more and more paint a varnish till it looks and feels like melted marshmallow.
By the time it dries I'm pretty happy with it. Just to make sure I coated it in a layer of gloss varnish after it dried, but that came out too shiny.
I decided to melt a marshmallow in the microwave so I could compare it, but that didn't go well at all. You really can't get the shine and stretch you want out of a microwaved marshmallow. I've also learned that if you keep them in the microwave too long they go brown, kind of gross.
I've also spent a bit of time preparing the frame and backing papers. I'm going to need them to be 100% ready for the next stage, burning the photograph.
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