Selected examples of paintings worked on over 2011

 "SOS" Oil on canvas

"Resting Place" Acrylic on canvas 2011

"Water Source"  Acrylic on canvas 2011

"Where Earth and Sky meet"  Acrylic on canvas 2011

"Whatever The Weather"  Ink, and acrylic paint on canvas 2011

As The White Gallery, (17 St Martins Walk, RH4 1UT) Dorking, have some of my painting in Silica-Sol Mineral Paint, I have put the following  information here. I plan to continue experimenting with this paint over the next few years.

Jenny Meehan - Gouache Painting using Silica-Sol Mineral Paint

The binding agent most commonly used in a gouache or bodycolour painting is gum arabic but having spent several months on an exterior mural using  potash waterglass bound silicate mineral paint I realised that, with the new generation of more technically advanced silica-sol mineral paint, I had found a paint which would give me a matt and highly reflective paint surface  which I much preferred to acrylic, along with the added benefits of being natural, eco-friendly, and exciting to use. 

That this third generation mineral paint may be used on organic as well as inorganic substrates has meant that I can also ensure my painting practice is ecologically friendly in the respect that I do not  need to waste excess  paint from larger exterior painting projects.  Instead, I adjust the colours of the paint using additional pigments, therefore extending the range of colours, which nevertheless retains a sense of a distinctive palette... One composed only of pigments able to withstand the alkaline quality of the paint; earth colours, iron oxides, metal oxides and ultramarine pigments. 

"Goethe's Delight - Liquor Silicium" 2011 Soldalit on MDF

Mural painted with Beeckosil and Beeck Full Colour silicate mineral paint, also the figures and linear sections with Keim Soldalit.   Mural coated with Keim Anti-Graffiti coating. 

I carried out my part in this project on a voluntary basis in order to gain this type of experience.  Project planning, colour areas and design - Jenny Meehan, assisted by children from Trafalgar Junior School. 

Cartooning workshops, arrangement of cartoons and painting of cartoons - John T Freeman. Thanks to the children, all of whom  can be very proud of the work they carried out during the workshops.

www.johntfreeman.co.uk

Entries on Jenny Meehan Wordpress Journal for this mural project:

http://jennymeehan.wordpress.com/category/ecologically-friendly-paint-and-schools/