Liquidtex
On the painting that I have been videoing, I have used the Liquidtex Pouring Medium.
It has done exactly what I wanted it to do and has held all the beautiful lines and marbled shapes through the drying process and doesn’t blur out.
Because of this, my current painting looks completely different to any of my other paintings from this project.
It has definitely inspired me to use the same technique on one of my final degree show paintings.
Videoing
Also an update on the videoing of the work. I have finished so I will be attempting to edit the videos soon. It’s all an experiment so it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t go well.
I will hopefully be uploading it soon.
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.
The Light Water
This turquoise painting began its journey at the start of this month.
It now has about 3 – 4 layers on it.
When painting the first layer, the paint started to ‘sink’ towards the middle of the canvas again. At first I was disappointed with this persistent effect, and I started to manipulate it and discouraged the paint from settling in the middle.
I then had my crit with tutors and fellow students, and I talked about this continuing problem. The best solution seems to be to work on unframed canvas and then frame it once its finished, therefore working on a completely flat surface.
However.
One of my tutors suggested I could turn this problem into a positive and let the paint make vortex like shapes one the canvas.
So,
I decided to try this out on this turquoise painting. I made the canvas quite damp, and with some blue, white and green paint (keeping the colours light and calm), I poured it on to the canvas around all of the edges, and watched as it flowed into the middle.
I finished by adding a PVA layer which mixed with a little of the ink on the bottom layer and created a few ripple like shapes.
I love the finished image, it’s a much brighter painting than any other I’m working on at the moment. The name of this painting comes from a book I’m reading called ‘Pisces Rising’, where the area of the sea between the surface and about 100ft down or so is called the ‘light water’.
