Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Creation VI

This is the fifth technique we learned and it is called a bottle bottom pour in the "Pour Your Heart Out" workshop with Valerie Kent at the Cavan Art Gallery.

First we mixed a little Floetrol into some white acrylic paint and put a thin layer across the canvas and set it aside to dry.

With three bright colours, in my case neon green, teal and Copenhagen blue, as well as black and white in individual containers, mixed with water to make them thin enough to pour easily.

We used the bottom 4" (10 cm) cut from a 2 litre (1.76 quarts) plastic bottle of (soda) pop and set it in the middle of the canvas, with the cut part on the canvas.



















Layer each of the colours one after another, in random order into the centre depression of the bottle bottom until the paint runs down onto the canvas.

Keep pouring the layers of' paint until it reaches all of the edges on the canvas and at this point carefully lift the bottle bottom off the canvas and set aside.

If the paint doesn't move into the centre area of canvas left by the bottle bottom, you can add a little of the paint into the empty space and move it around with a palette knife.

Creation VI is an original 12" x 12" acrylic painting and will be available for $250.00.