Abstracts

[Chris V++]

Merry Christmas. Just wanted to share some recent abstracts. Nothing says Christmas like a bunch of splatters and paint pours. Two are red and green at least. These are mostly alcohol inks or acrylic inks.

 

[EzekielsWheels]

Merry Christmas. Just wanted to share some recent abstracts. Nothing says Christmas like a bunch of splatters and paint pours. Two are red and green at least. These are mostly alcohol inks or acrylic inks.
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I like these. Are you a professional artist?

 

[Chris V++]

I like these. Are you a professional artist?

Thank you sir. No, but I'm an aspiring professional artist, but the problem is I've been aspiring for awhile now.

 

[Brightmoon]

The first time you sell one then you’re a professional those are lovely ! I always wanted to do an acrylic pour . But I don’t have space in my overcrowded apartment and I can’t use the yard.
I decided to go back to dancing after being a couch potato for decades . Picture those hippos from the original Disney Fantasia and you got it.

Don’t you love being a creative!!

 

[Chris V++]

The first time you sell one then you’re a professional those are lovely ! I always wanted to do an acrylic pour . But I don’t have space in my overcrowded apartment and I can’t use the yard.
I decided to go back to dancing after being a couch potato for decades . Picture those hippos from the original Disney Fantasia and you got it.

Don’t you love being a creative!!

Thanks! I've sold a few in the past and had a few commissions, but nothing worth declaring on the tax return. The acrylic pours are great to watch on youtube. For mine, just when I got the hang of it and started getting cells to form I lost interest. Most of these are alcohol ink pours with rubbing alcohol as a medium. Its fascinating to watch the pigments group themselves into these weird patterns. They must be resisting or repelling each other. The ink bottles don't identify the actual pigment names so I have no idea how to research what is going on when it happens. Ill find and post one that is so weird it looks like an iris.

It's great that you are back to dancing! That's probably a better workout than jogging. I love watching Dancing with the Stars. That looks like so much fun.

 

[Chris V++]

 

[Brightmoon]

I’ve sold a few quilt patterns, not quilts just the patterns . So I know what you mean . I keep telling myself that I’m going put out a book of patterns but I HATE to write . I like to draw but lately I’ve just been doodling which is fun but think quilt pattern not fine art

 

[Chris V++]

What? Quilting is definitely fine art. Plus it probably sells better than painting. I've seen so many quilts and abstract fiber art pieces in museums everywhere. Did you ever see MC Escher's tessellations? Those would make amazing quilt patterns. You could do the book as a New Year's Resolution. Two pages a week.

 

[tall73]

Merry Christmas. Just wanted to share some recent abstracts. Nothing says Christmas like a bunch of splatters and paint pours. Two are red and green at least. These are mostly alcohol inks or acrylic inks.

It is fascinating to watch all the patterns they create. Do you have any control over them other than the initial drop location? In watching the videos it looks like they start forming one drop then you can drop in additional ones in locations to branch off.

Is this using that new batch of Yupo you got? We finally obtained some on your recommendation. My daughter tried yupo with waterbased markers and the results were fantastic. She did a rendering of tthree wisemen traveling with their camels. Slightly less control, but much stronger saturation. She used the Crayola supertips, which are cheapo markers, but they came out great. The Yupo doesn't cost anymore than watercolor paper, and when you use it with markers that are 14 buck per hundred, it winds up being an affordable overall experience. You can layer on endlessly without the paper giving out of course. She could even go dark to light with the water based markers, which was surprising.

Thanks for recommending it!

 

[Chris V++]

Do you have any control over them other than the initial drop location? In watching the videos it looks like they start forming one drop then you can drop in additional ones in locations to branch off.

Thank you sir. The alcohol inks are as fluid as rubbing alcohol, so you can either pour larger pools or apply small drops. You can use rubbing alcohol as a medium and make a larger more transparent pour (see the green one with the orange eye above) Other tricks You can tilt the yupo to move the ink around, or blow it around with a straw. Some use a hair dryer too. There is a guy on youtube that lights the alcohol on fire temporarily for different effects. He pours on porcelain tile. Too much heat melts and warps the Yupo. I have a mister bottle and also a dropper to spritz alcohol. It's hours of trial and error but eventually you can start reproducing certain effects with consistency.

The acrylic pours are a much different process .You have to youtube acrylic pour painting. The trick for that is the perfect consistency of paint and the right combination of medium and additives like drops of silicon to make the cells and lace patterns form, but it's possible to have them form without the silicon. There are people on youtube literally selling their formulas. For a while I was combining so many different household chemicals I was afraid I was going to blow off a finger. Most do acrylic pours on canvas, not yupo. You can manipulate the paint after the pours by tilting the canvas. It's a lot of trial and error but the results can be mind blowing and the paintings practically paint themselves.

I'm glad your daughter likes the Yupo. Get her some cheap sponges and have her apply fluid watercolor paint with sponges. The textures are amazing.

 

[tall73]

Thank you sir. The alcohol inks are as fluid as rubbing alcohol, so you can either pour larger pools or apply small drops. You can use rubbing alcohol as a medium and make a larger more transparent pour (see the green one with the orange eye above) Other tricks You can tilt the yupo to move the ink around, or blow it around with a straw. Some use a hair dryer too. There is a guy on youtube that lights the alcohol on fire temporarily for different effects. He pours on porcelain tile. Too much heat melts and warps the Yupo. I have a mister bottle and also a dropper to spritz alcohol. It's hours of trial and error but eventually you can start reproducing certain effects with consistency.

The acrylic pours are a much different process .You have to youtube acrylic pour painting. The trick for that is the perfect consistency of paint and the right combination of medium and additives like drops of silicon to make the cells and lace patterns form, but it's possible to have them form without the silicon. There are people on youtube literally selling their formulas. For a while I was combining so many different household chemicals I was afraid I was going to blow off a finger. Most do acrylic pours on canvas, not yupo. You can manipulate the paint after the pours by tilting the canvas. It's a lot of trial and error but the results can be mind blowing and the paintings practically paint themselves.

I'm glad your daughter likes the Yupo. Get her some cheap sponges and have her apply fluid watercolor paint with sponges. The textures are amazing.

Great info. Are the sponges for doing textures within a painting, or more for abstract?

 

[Chris V++]

Great info. Are the sponges for doing textures within a painting, or more for abstract?

Either abstract or representational All this foliage on these two landscapes was done with different sponges, both natural sea sponges and synthetic dish sponges. There's an abstract blue moon at the bottom that was done with sponges too. The little holes in the sponges created the crater patterns.