Acrylic Fluid Art
Fluid art is actually quite easy to create, and is amazing for those who are just starting to experiment with colours or just paint in general.
All of my work included on this page are all created within the same format and they all made from the same batches of paint.
All of the pieces are created on quite small A5 canvases, I've learnt that the smaller they are. the less likely to bow in the middle and it worked as a brilliant starting point. The Acrylic paint I use is quite basic and quite cheap, as you need to create a mixture of paint water (oil is optional) to create paint for fluid paintings.
For my pieces, I mix 50/50 paint and water, make sure it is mixed correctly and then leave for about 2 hours so any air bubbles can escape. Afterwards I add different colours into different cups and create in-usual colour combinations and patterns with the paint when poured.
Fluid Art is a great way of exploring your preferred method of art, and is a great way of entering an artistic field of work. It's one of the only ways that I enjoy using paint as you can be as free and as experimental as you want, and it can always be changed by wither adding more paint or by simply moving it around once it is on your desired surface.
There really is a lot that you can do with it.
This piece was created with two different shades of Green, one shade of light blue, Yellow, Orange, White and Black.
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This was one of the first pieces I made when I begun to experiment with Fluid work, and is one of my most hypnotic pieces of work.
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A less hectic piece that still has the movement of the materials captured within it.
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This piece was created with two different shades of red paint, orange, yellow, black and white. When adding the paint to the canvas, I used a lot of movement to try and create some of the ripples like shapes that you can see. A lot more calming but still has plenty going on within it.
Within this piece of fluid work, you can see all of the lines of colour that where left behind by the movement of the paint from when I was moving the canvas to create directional work.
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This piece is a mix of Red, orange, Black and White. Unfortunately you can see the odd lump of paint within the work, which has occasionally happened with other pieces that I've done.
Due to the way that I had added all of the colours together in the cup, it created a very strange and very different piece of work when compared to the others, overall, it seems like there's a whole lot more going on within this piece.
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I used 2 different Greens, Yellow, a small amount of Orange, red, Black and White. The consistency of the paints varied which is why it seems like some of the paints just flow around certain areas.
By using multiple shades of Red, I managed to create a piece of work which has hidden colours underneath the main layers.
you can see them peaking through and breaking through the multiple layers of Red that I had created when pouring all of the paint into one cup. Red, Green, Yellow, black and White.
This piece is another piece of work that is mainly red dominated, By using three different shades of Red I managed to create this smooth looking piece that seems quite hypnotic to look upon.
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Besides the three reds, the only other colours used where Yellow, Black and White. Unfortunetly there where also quite a few air bubbles trapped within the paint after it was poured, an error on part as I hadn't left the watered down paint to settle for long enough after preparation.
Another smooth yet hypnotic piece of work, this time using Greens and reds with Black in-between to break up the mixtures of the two colours.
I unfortunately don't have much photographic evidence of this piece before it was sold on, but it was by far one of my favourites.
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The Purple and Yellow worked in harmony to fill the canvas and created quite a calming piece of work.