Art.
Tiffany is a Fine Artist with a keen interest in almost every art form. She loves creating and finds it a meditative process. She takes her time with her work, and every piece is unique. Tiffany is a specialist in colour mixing – almost all of her paintings are created by the three primaries and white. The vibrancy and depth in the colours are a result of her unique perspective and creative touch, a unique fingerprint on every work.
If Tiffany can’t create using a particular medium or art form, you can virtually guarantee she wants to learn how! Her dream is to complete a Fine Arts education and be apprenticed to certain masters she admires in a select variety of fields, with an ultimate view to create a specific brand of interactive mixed media artworks (the particulars of which is currently a loosely-guarded secret). Her ultimate ambition is to have a large self-sufficient property with a giant multidisciplinary art studio/workshop, with a very productive, high-class music studio on the side.
The below works are a selection of both professional and student works.
If Tiffany can’t create using a particular medium or art form, you can virtually guarantee she wants to learn how! Her dream is to complete a Fine Arts education and be apprenticed to certain masters she admires in a select variety of fields, with an ultimate view to create a specific brand of interactive mixed media artworks (the particulars of which is currently a loosely-guarded secret). Her ultimate ambition is to have a large self-sufficient property with a giant multidisciplinary art studio/workshop, with a very productive, high-class music studio on the side.
The below works are a selection of both professional and student works.
Paintings
Paintings are the lifeblood of Tiffany’s fine arts practice and her clients acquire a mix of commissions and previously inspired paintings. She primarily works with acrylics, but will work with any medium necessary. She would like to experiment more with oils, dyes, enamel and other mediums (especially new mediums) in the future. The mural was done with an oil paint base and spray paint details.
Prints
While Tiffany has experimented with a variety of printing styles, she has discovered a particular penchant and aptitude for aquatint acid etchings, all hand-inked.
This is quite an involved process. First, you coat a zinc plate with a plastic backing and a wax front and create a line-drawing and dip it into an acid bath for a minute, transfer it to a water bath, then wash and dry it. This creates an acid-etched line drawing of a print (such line drawings are very limited edition, between 2 and 6 prints each). Then you apply the aqua-tinting process to it. The zinc plate gets placed in a stirred-up cupboard of fine, mustard-coloured aquatint powder. You then carefully take it out and melt it from the centre out using an industrial heater on the underside of the plate. You then must pain the shading details with a waxy substance in negative – covering the white bits first and working your way in to the darker parts. Each time you paint the wax on you dip it in the acid for 1-3 seconds, dip it in the water, dry it with a fan and repeat. You gradually build up the shade by repeating this process about 20-30 and potentially up to 50 times until you've reached the desired level and detail of shading. Each dip in the acid creates more microscopic holes in the aqua-tint film, meaning that any exposed area is darkened. So when you paint the wax on, it's preventing that area from being darkened. So you paint the white bits first, and the black bits last. The previously etched lines are already in there as black.
This is quite an involved process. First, you coat a zinc plate with a plastic backing and a wax front and create a line-drawing and dip it into an acid bath for a minute, transfer it to a water bath, then wash and dry it. This creates an acid-etched line drawing of a print (such line drawings are very limited edition, between 2 and 6 prints each). Then you apply the aqua-tinting process to it. The zinc plate gets placed in a stirred-up cupboard of fine, mustard-coloured aquatint powder. You then carefully take it out and melt it from the centre out using an industrial heater on the underside of the plate. You then must pain the shading details with a waxy substance in negative – covering the white bits first and working your way in to the darker parts. Each time you paint the wax on you dip it in the acid for 1-3 seconds, dip it in the water, dry it with a fan and repeat. You gradually build up the shade by repeating this process about 20-30 and potentially up to 50 times until you've reached the desired level and detail of shading. Each dip in the acid creates more microscopic holes in the aqua-tint film, meaning that any exposed area is darkened. So when you paint the wax on, it's preventing that area from being darkened. So you paint the white bits first, and the black bits last. The previously etched lines are already in there as black.
Drawings
Most of these drawings were completed in the one year of art school I was able to attend. Some I wish to turn into paintings. Some I would like to do more of. I particularly like working with coloured pencils, something which was quite surprising to me, because of all the different colours you can identify and exaggerate in skin.
Sculptures
These are a selection of sculptures. This is one area Tiffany keenly desires to expand on in the future, learning to work with metal (in particular, steel and bronze), glass, and various styles of clay and even jewellery-art hybrids in the future.
Art Supplies
Tiffany is locally famous for her unique use of colour and colour-mixing skills. She is now selling custom colour paints on order and is looking to soon be releasing pre-mixes from her favourite brands at markets and in art co-operatives, in addition to teaching colour-mixing classes where some art supplies can be purchased.
To find out where she's currently operating, request a custom colour, or get on the mailing list for updates, please contact us here.
To find out where she's currently operating, request a custom colour, or get on the mailing list for updates, please contact us here.
