From Hell and Back!

Experimenting on a deadline is wasteful and crazy. It can potentially break your confidence and get you fired. This is what I did and I would probably pay dearly for my shift if this were a real world situation. First off, I wanted to use acrylics, then I wanted to sort of fog things out with matte medium and then add an overlay of inks. The matte would desaturate the colors enough to pop the inkwork. Then, I'd add an oil glaze or two or three. Luckily I started ahead out time...
I added the matte late in the night and it was too transparent. (I didn't figure I could've just added a little white.) Then I thought I'd add a little clear gesso. This was the big step which caused all my problems because "clear" gesso is not perfectly clear, it has grit to it and can easily get bubbles in it which can cause white streaks. Never add a variable you haven't all ready tested into the mix because it is too great of a risk. I thought I could get rid of the streaks by sanding the surface a little. This only increased the "whitening" of the original colors (so much so that I could hardly see it. I paniced and washed the surface. Water seeped into the pores and grain of the surface and the clear gesso began to peel. Then, I thought I could just peel the stuff off, so I began to, but with horrible results, as some of the layer stuck to the acrylics. The original painting started to peel off also! I went insane and called it a night.
Came in the next morning, put on a frosted mylar sheet and traced the little I could with ink. Scanned both the ink and my terrble painting and touched up everything in Photoshop. I may have saved myself. We'll see. I doubt it.

Here's a little something I've been working on also...