Purple painting,
I have done some more work on my A2 (ish) size purple painting
This one has maybe more layers than Twilight zone, as whenever I’m waiting for something to dry on a bigger more important painting, this is the one I pick up and add too while I’m waiting, most of the time with left over paint from other works.
It is also a piece for experimenting and trying out new ideas, before trying them on a bigger scale, so it’s kind of a continuous sketchbook, but on a canvas.
One of the recent ideas that I used was using a paint brush
(which I normally only use for stirring paint and doesn’t usually touch the canvas)
and dabbing a colour into a large blob of water and watching as it quickly disperses into swirling shapes.
Though,
again, the shapes do not hold and by the time its dry they have blurred out.
Another reason why the photographing / filming of a painting seems to be becoming more important.
Liquidtex
When trying to ‘embed’ my YouTube video into a previous post, I spotted an interesting image on the side of the webpage.
It was a link to a video of someone painting, and they were using particular mediums.
Liquidtex pouring medium, combined with golden high flowing acrylics.
Basically the pouring medium is a translucent liquid that dries clear, and when you drop or swirl fluid paint into it, it allows the paint to hold any swirling patterns and shapes when drying, and the finished result is beautiful!
So supposedly, this medium may solve the problem I have had with the paint not being able to hold its shape and blurring out in the drying process!
So I bought some, (a small bottle as it’s expensive and it’s just for experimenting for now, if it works I will be buying more!)
Though the person in the video shows golden high flow acrylics and the bottle suggests its own brand of paints.
They are very expensive! So I will try using my usual watered down acrylics and maybe Windsor and Newton inks.
I will be using it on my new painting that I will be filming. Whether it goes ok or not doesn’t matter, it’s an experiment.
The Persons Video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQpVBS4rps
Someone else using Liquidtex pouring medium
I recently finished Twilight Zone
It has 10 or so layers on it. The overall image is quite dark and in my opinion has to be viewed in a certain light to be fully appreciated.
Though I do like it, I feel it could have been better.
Maybe it was the Quink ink.
If the ink had the ability to come through all the layers and reach the surface to mix with the varnish/PVA, it may have mixed with each layer without me realising. Even though the colours I put on always seemed bright and colourful when wet, once it had dried and I returned the next day it was always somewhat duller than when it was wet.
Therefore,
I WILL NEVER USE QUINK INK AGAIN.
So,
I have started to do a base coat on another painting, (I can never work on a white base), but using only acrylic! I’m also using a sponge for an even distribution and to eliminate brush stroke lines.
Once the base coat is done this is the painting that I will try to film the process of.
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When in the final stages of the painting I was trying to save a portion of purple that I liked from being consumed by the slow approaching green-blue. So I left a tissue on that spot to soak up any invading paint.
After it had dried and the purple was safe, I looked at the tissue and actually quite liked the colours and shapes it had picked up, so I did more! Maybe I can use them in sketchbook studies by painting/ drawing over them, or just keep them as they are.
