Following on from the last success with multimedia and because I hadn’t much opportunity to do any brush work recently I have modified one of my paintings using my phablet as it is my new…. toy.
Category: Art & Illustration
Paintings, sketches, digital experiments, and visual studies from my evolving art practice.
The Feverish Fire Flee: Red Gold Yellow Mixed Media
It’s so hot! Perhaps that’s why I did this painting.
It reminds me of a Bush fire.
Even here in the UK we heard of terrible grass fires in Wansted Flats and destructive week long fires on the Yorkshire Moors. Both these are places that I have had the pleasure to visit in the past.
So the fire like scene that I generated in this painting might be some deeper expression of my consciousness.
In fact I was very disturbed that I created an image of fire, having been a victim of a building fire in the past.
So in experimentation mode I inserted some digital images of wildlife fleeing to show how the animals are running to safety. Now I’m very pleased about that.
The poor man’s pour in sky and sea blue
NoFor these painting ideas I used the pour method. But I have to admit it was the poor man’s pour because I haven’t got silicone and all kinds of oils to create cells .
So instead I used water and just wind as I gracefuly waved the painting around so that the liquid paint would just move languidly along the surface of the paper.
During this mesmerising time I watched as the trickles move down the sheet. On noticing the decorative dynamic I would be wondering what shapes they would make.
But hey presto the colours of sky blue and sea blue themselves nicely unite to form one of those popular wave scenes that we often see in acrylic pours.
I also did a bit of digital modification of my painting. See below. You see I discovered that with my new fangled phone I’m able to create artworks albeit basic but digital artworks just by using my thumb and finger and the different kinds of tools that the drawing app provides. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was able to create more original work by blending my traditional acrylic painting skills with the more modern digital art technology that you can find on your mobile phone. It has helped me capture the drama of stormy seas and how vulnerable I would feel in a boat. I guess it is a nod to the need to respect the sea. These sea waters can look beautiful while being dangerous at the same time.
Blue: Rough sea high textured painting using mask and serum ironically
So is it a paradox or irony that I used moisturising masks and serums to help create rough textures in my paintings?
Whatever it is, I rather enjoy indulging in the strangeness of it all.
Some might think to use expensive cosmetics and skin care products is a sin.
Me I’m past caring about the culture of body shaming and image anxieties. So I use my old cosmetics in my paintings. Not to make them beautiful necessarily but to help the earth shine.
What I hate to think is that the excess and waste from the cosmetic industry has the potential of ending up as land fill.
Who knows what harm this could do to the soil, or animals so it’s better we make use of them and keep them on the land surface with us while decorating our houses and homes.
Grey: Frosty Jupiter Dream scene
So I experimented last night I’ve been watching all these videos about acrylic pouring . I do like to see the finished results as these amazing sparkly Goldie blingy shiny paintings .
Doing an acrylic pour is one of the items on my activity wish list so I had a go and in this next series of five are the end results.
It’s not strictly an acrylic pour it’s a made up version. Normally a pour needs things like silicon and all kinds of bits added to make the the paint separate so that you get what they call cells.
So for the first one you can see in the next post that I added Environ face mask to it and I added a serum gel something I thought would be making the acrylic separation. But that didn’t work in the same way I would hope.
Instead what I do love is the smooth texture the my upcycled make up brushes make to the painting. Here I used the contour brush. I’m sure I would not be getting such a smoothly sumptuously painted surface if I used ordinary artists paint brushes.
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