I do use some pretty cool tools for this. My favorite tool when doing these are definitive the silicon wedges, but I'm also using some large palette knives.
Liquitex #10 Large Palette Knife
Princeton Art & Brush W-06 Catalyst Silicone Wedge Tool, White
Lets start with the paint colors:
Mars Black
Titanium White
Cobalt Blue Hue
Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue
Hooker's Green Hue Permanent
Bright Aqua Green
Brilliant Yellow Green
Some of my paintings you'll find are geometric swatches. I don't know if that's a real term, but its what I'm going to call it for all intents and purposes. Typically when creating these I go with the flow and just keep painting. Whatever happens, I just keep painting.
There's a concept in literature criticism called stream of consciousness. Its mostly a form of narration where the all thoughts and feelings are just freely expressed without edits. Some writers use this approach too, and its sometimes called free-writing. I've tried this method in the past when I had writers block. You basically keep writing, writing anything that comes to mind. If you get stuck you just write that word over and over until a new idea comes to mind, but you don't stop. when they are writing or if they have writers block to force through it.
So, the idea behind this painting is to just keep painting anything that feels right and not necessarily edit, but instead, build on top.
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It must happen to everyone at some point. You start up the camera to record the action, and it decided 25 minutes in that its going to stop. It doesn't run out of battery just stops. It was a big bummer when I got up after painting this one to find that it stopped just when it was getting good! Well, you only make that mistake once. This painting taught me the fun trick of setting a timer if I chose to record, because well, better safe than sorry again.
This Septem Circulus was done in the realm of the Morning Coffee. I was working with roughly the same color pallet, thought perhaps slightly brighter. I employed drips with paint and also with a spray bottle filled with water to allow the paint to drip off the canvas. I also rotate this painting many many times to get different dripping effects and layer.
Instead of the hard lines and curves, I have circles, similar to Bathroom Series #1. For the circles I pulled out some cups, bottle caps, and medicine cups. There's also faded circles made from small bubble wrap and two sets of seven circles in red made from large bubble wrap.
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This painting was a lot of fun to work on. It might have been the smell of coffee grounds while painting, but whatever it was it was a fun time creating this one. I tried a lot of new things with this painting that I hadn't done before and I wasn't sure how it would work out. All in all, I feel like experience wise, I learned a great deal about layers and texture. The overall tone of this painting was in the red or rusty tone. I was really enjoying the Burnt Senna and Deep Yellow and some variants of brown.
So, what did I do in this painting...
Well, I created my own type of spray paint with little spray bottles. I bought, probably too many little spray bottles, and starting filling them with paint. You see me use white, brown, and yellow in the video. Always to layer, but sometimes to add some geometric interest and sometimes to brighten sections. I also dripped some High Flow paint, and some more self made drippable paint.
The most fun part was how I was going to add another textural element to the piece. I had been toying around with the idea of sand, but what I had turned out to be a bit too coarse. I turned to coffee. I don't drink coffee, but my inlaws were in visiting recently and we had some left over coffee. Nothing goes to waste when your an artist looking for new and creative ways to add interest and save money.
At this point I had added many layers and the background was looking pretty neat but thought that it needed some structure overall. First, I started working the sprays to get a few curves. This was interesting because depending on the density of the paint in the spray bottles I got different effects. When there was more paint it in the water and paint ratio, it came out a stream instead of a spray. Next, I mixed the coffee with some paint to get it textured, then i added some red coffee textured lines of different sizes and used black coffee textured lines to add a shadow affect.
I have to say the smell was amazing the whole time. Well, if you've gotten this far, take a load off and watch it in action!
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