Theorycrafting: Same paint, different layers
What happens when you layer the same paint in different ways?
Using peach, a coppery brown, a light periwinkle and navy, this cup has a thin layer of white between each layer of color.
Each pour was a straight pour where I slowly poured the entire contents of the cup onto the center of the 12 x 12 canvas. Each cup had the same amount of paint by weight.
Left: Immediately after pouring (slowly tilting the paint from the cup onto the center of the canvas)
Right: After torching (to pop air bubbles and manuipulate the surface tension which allows paints of different densities to rise to the surface or sink to the bottom, creating "cells" of color).
It looks like a blue and peach galaxy. It's almost too pretty to tilt.
Yep, it was prettier before I tilted it. (I tilt the canvas after the pour for covering it completely with paint and for composition.) Wow, those colors sure came out pale or almost pastel! Where did my blue go? It makes this photograph look blurry!
I'll keep this one to remember the lesson that white can be overpowering and I need to think about colors mixing.
What if we layer the colors without any white in between?
Left: Immediately after pouring (slowly tilting the paint from the cup onto the center of the canvas)
Right: After torching (to pop air bubbles and manuipulate the surface tension which allows paints of different densities to rise to the surface or sink to the bottom, creating "cells" of color).
Not so much a universe this time, but look at the purple action where the colors blended - stunning!
I think I would like this even more if I had layered thinner layers at the bottom of the cup so the center had more detail.
I think I had way too much paint on my canvas and I tilted most of it off. I think I might be able to keep the center of the puddle in the center of the canvas using the correct amount of paint.
This one's definitely a keeper.
What if we layer the colors in a haphazard manner, from high up? Sometime's that called a "dirty" pour.
Left: Immediately after pouring (slowly tilting the paint from the cup onto the center of the canvas)
Right: After torching (to pop air bubbles and manuipulate the surface tension which allows paints of different densities to rise to the surface or sink to the bottom, creating "cells" of color).
Much less mixing of colors than I thought would happen.
I put the navy paint into the cup first so that it would come out last and be the center, no running away this time -- unfortunately, nothing really moved anywhere, and it looks like a big blob of paints. I think I didn't get the layers poured from high enough to get the paints to move around and blend.