TUTORIAL IT

And Even More Five Minute Paintings

Another session of Five-Minute-Paintings produced the following.  Many of you wanted to know what happens next with the paintings.  Good question.  I want to continue each painting, see where it goes, but try not to loose the fresh, spontaneous quality.  So here is the plan:  I will post these paintings again after Ive worked on them more.  I dont know if all of them will make it to anything resembling "completion" - in fact I am absolutely sure that not all of them will.  But Ill work on each one and see what happens.

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I did these with a 3.5" brush - from the paint department of a hardware store - and interior latex paint for the BIG colors.  Red, green, magenta, and quinacridone gold are all "real" paint from Golden.  Id bought twelve different intense colors of a good quality interior latex paint, in quarts, eggshell finish, to see what it would be like to use in paintings.  It definitely makes me feel freer, less precious about the material.  It has a nice consistency - like fluid acrylics - but it does have to be stirred before every painting session.

Anyone trying this themselves, please let me know how it worked for you.  If you have a blog or web site where you can post it, include the url in your comment. 

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An Update on the Drip Paintings

You may have seen this post with the video about using High Flow paint.  Here are six of the finished pieces.  I am calling them "Splash", for lack of better skills at creating titles.  To me they are landscapes, evoking various moods, places, natural features.  #6 suggests to me the surface of the sun, or a warning about the earths heating.

Splash #6

Splash #1

Splash #2

Splash #3

Splash #4

Splash #5

To me, a little of this dripping goes a long way, so covering up a lot of the initial layers of drips was important to the process.  Thanks for visiting.  The above are available as prints on Fine Art America.  I just added some other product options such as throw pillows, duvet covers, tote bags, etc., which you will see when you click the individual images on FAA. 

Available link for download