This is the first time I have attempted to do a pull string feather.
Before I start, let me show you what I did beforehand. Everytime I start acryclic painting, I spend at least ten to fifteen minutes mixing the paint. A lot of artist enjoy this stage, but I prefer to jump right in and start creating. The other day I bought some squeezy bottles and pre mixed a few colours. This saves me not having to mix my paint every time, and I won't have the problem of mixing too much or not enough during each session. In fact, I think just having all these bright bottles side by side at my work space looks very colourful.
Anyway back to my creation today. Making pull string feather is very simple (in theory). I started off making two. You just need to place a short piece of string on the canvas, and pull downwards making a U shape with the string. Then place the string at the same postion and pull the opposite direction.
In this photo, I have done the first two feathers. You'll notice that the feather is a bit 'fat'. I think I didn't pull the string towards itself enough, ie the U shape when pulling was too big. This resulted in the feather being too wide. Also, when I placed the string on the canvas, it was a bit too curved, feathers are normally straighter.
Since I'm a beginner and amateur, I had not planned in advance what my crreation would be like. Afterall, this is my playground, and the ojective is to have fun and not too many rules. So I decided to do two more pulls. I placed one piece of string at the end of the two feathers to do a third feather, and a second piece of string on top of the feathers to do an abstract shape.
I ended up doing one half of the third feather as I didn't want it to cover up my first two feathers. And for the final pull, I swished it around and finished it off by pulling it around the first two feathers. It wasn't quite the feathers I had in mind. But I got something else.
Purple Wave.
LUT, in my playground