Tag: Paintings

Paintings

Grey: Frosty Jupiter Dream scene

Art & Illustration

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.

Blue and green 3D subconscious painting that never should have been seen or heard

Art & Illustration

Surprisingly I painted this one while on the phone to my friend Frances. We were gossiping away and I had her on speakerphone and my hands started drifting over to the paints and brushes. While painting I didn’t want her to know that I was distracted so I was keeping my efforts quiet (but that wasn’t hard to do).

I was surprised that by the end of our conversation I had finished two paintings. The other one is in the next post. When I told her what I had done, she said oh you were multitasking.  I later realized I was doing a subconscious painting  

I also read that this process is called automatism I was painting using intuition and not letting my conscious thoughts about colour and form get in the way too much. Which is why  I was surprised that I did put blue and green together. I saw how the forms of flowers and a definite landscape are starting to came together easily too, which challenged me as I always thought I was better at abstract. I never really wanted to paint flowers, meadows and sky, but that’s what came out when I wasn’t thinking to much about what I was doing. Interesting…

I also, in that stroke of madness cut open a lavender pillow (that I had made for my Etsy shop) and sprinkled the dried lavender content where my subconscious thought it was necessary to be on the painting.

I’m rather pleased with the finished product. It has a 3D side to it and smells of rose petals and lavender as well as looking pretty enough to adorn a cushion pad for a grand conservatory.

I’m starting to think about turning my paintings into home decor items. So a couple days after I finished this I was road testing how this image of flowers and some collected in a golden vessel would feel as a statement cushion cover.