Abstract Painting & Mixed Media – Artist Exposé #2
The experimental piece dried much paler so I worked into it with oil pastel and fine liner. Going for a conflict between the bright oil colors and the dull dirty turpentine.
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Section of mixed media layered piece. Watercolor on ink, on turpentine. Ink and turpentine conflicting create scratchy separated sections. I also flicked some paint droplets to see how they dispersed.
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Switching it around by painting bleach onto ink instead, creating something more controlled.
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Section of an improvised mixed media piece in response to a music track (We As Human – Taking life). Each color represents an instrument, and I listened to the song once through for each color, layering it up. Watercolor and oil pastel rubbing over textured surface.
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Diluted Quink ink and turpentine, gestural painting.
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Experimenting with concentric circles. Ink onto bleach then a wash of water over it to blur ink and get a sort of “old photo” soft edges effect.
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The most complex and layered piece of work. Many layers of various conflicting materials such as turpentine, ink, watercolor, gouache, bleach, and oil paint. This created some really interesting interactions.
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Watercolor droplets on turpentine-saturated paper, so no dispersion. Water dropped on top to pale the ink.
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Experiments into the idea of material conflict. Painting Quink ink, wet into wet, onto bleached paper. Bleach eats into the black pigment and leaves a golden color.
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Spontaneous experiment using dirty turpentine on top of watercolor wash and watercolor on top which didn’t disperse.
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