"The beginning" Acrylic pour on pine wood 3 1ft x 2 ft boards March 2019 EXHIBITION TEXT: My intention with this piece was to represent the formation of the earth as I learned for a documentary I watched in my environment class. I do this by using floetrol, acrylic paint, water, dish soap, pine wood boards and a blow torch. i was inspired by Josseline Casstelio and the plant earth. |
Critical investigation
I am a part of the organization, Latinas United In Art. I met josseline and was exposed to her art there. I imediately wanted to do something similar to her. This project gave me the oprotunity to do so. I wanted to experiment with different styles and top my art with a glossy finish like she does.
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I am very concerned for the environment. I was inspired by this concern to create this piece. I wanted to use the formation of the earth to remind the viewers that there is such beauty in the basic cores of our earth and we are not appreciating it enough.
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Planning Drawings
This is my first planning sketch, my original idea was to paint a person swimming in an ocean. The ocean background would be an acrylic pour. It would be a representation on beauty and excepting who you are.
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This was my second sketch which is more environmentaly focused. I wanted to focus on ecosystems, food chain and bio acculmilation. this piece would also be an acyrlic pour.
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This was my final sketch. This isn't an actual sketch but it was a way to lay out my ideas. just like a sketch. This is after i decided to just do pours. i needed a way to layout my colors so they'd look nice together when i had done my own. My idea had changed from what my sketch intended. instead of red i switched to green to fit the theme better. I wish i would have done another sketch before pouring the paint. |
Process, Ideas and Intentions
Process
Before you begin working with the wood boards. You need to sand the board until its smooth and no longer splintery
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to help layout what youre trying to do, use photoshop or someother photo editing or collage app to lay out your ideas and colors
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lay out wood boards on something like garbage bags to catch paint. Put the boards on cups to suspend them
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mix paint, floetrol and water in cups. Mix each color seperately and thoroughly.
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Go on the edges with white paint mixed with floetrol. Doing this helps with areas that the later poured paint may have trouble reaching
For the blue board, i used a dirty pour method. With this method you take the cups and flip them upside down and let the paint drip out. Once the paint has all exited the cup, you can take the cups out and move the paint around the board by picking the board up and tilting.
. To create more cells, i used a spray bottle with water diluted dish soap and sprayed that on top of the board.
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pour the colors in the order you want them to come out. This depends on the method of pouring you decide to do. For messy pours, you generally dont need to pick a specific order
for the orange board was made using the swirling pour method. to do this method you need to make sure that you put the colors into your cup in the opposite order of the way you want them to come out. when pouring you continously make circle motions with your hand to create the swirl.
to get ride of air bubbles and help grow cells, you need to torch the pour. be careful with this step as you are using chemicals and an open flame. The torch needs to be continuosly moving in order to not burn your board.
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I attempted to do a flower method for my "green" board. for this i needed a bottle bottom for each of the flowers. to do this method you swirl pour on the orginaly board in the areas you want the flowers. then you put the bottle on it and pour the bacground color on top of the bottoms.
For my green board i didnt like the flowers that i had made so i just poured more green shades on top of the flower to push the pink paint off.
let the finished products completely dry.
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Experimentation
I practiced the the pouring before doing this piece and i found that using this method creates more cells than straight floetrol and water. i had never done acyrlic pours before and its relatively new to me. before actually pouring on the boards i bought and cut for school, i tested different pouring methods on canvas. I decided that i wanted to reflect on all the methods i had learned in my final piece. I had decided to do each board with a method to reflect my learned skill. |
I experimented with pouring entirely. At first i was planning on puring on canvas and painting on top of it so i was thinking instead of painting on the pour directly, id create negative space with tape and pour, then peel the tape off. I had to ditch the canvas as i heard from my teacher that pouring on top of canvas would make the canvas sink. I also found that painting on a pour would be okay as well and there was no need for negative space to be made. When i poured the green, i orginally intended to have a flower. The flower did not work well and i had to cover it up. The flower is as shown on the left. I feel that its aesthetically unpleasing and could not leave the board like that. |
Reflection
This project was way harder than i thought it was going to be. I thought pouring paint on a board would be an easy project but there was so many things i ended up learning. I actually dont like doing pours. Its way more stressful than the instagram videos make them out to be. overall i am not very proud of this as it stands now. I would like to redo the green board and use lighter shades of green. To me, the green is an eyesore.
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Critique
I feel that It did not turn out as well as my intentions were. The blue doesnt have many cells and the green is no beauty. The only board i feel satified with is the spiral method poured one, the orange. all three of my boards did not take well to cells. I am unsure of the reason why but i will continue making pours to find the perfect pour.
Compare and Contrast
Similarities between my piece and Josselines :
Similarities between my piece and the Earth:
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Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and it's effect upon your artwork?
Each of my inspirational pieces had a effect on my work in one way or another. For example, Since i had been inspired by odees collages it had effect on my work by giving me the idea of and ocean for my foreground and background
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
So Odee was describing himself and how he describes his art.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas,culture,etc. While you researched your inspiration?
One generalization from Odee was that he didnt want to be associated with the typical artsy people and their sterotypes.
What is the central idea and theme around your inspirational research?
The central idea and theme around my research was to put feelings in my piece, from Salvador Dali and don't think about it too much, from Odee
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I inferred that Odee wanted to visually express himself instead of making art.
Each of my inspirational pieces had a effect on my work in one way or another. For example, Since i had been inspired by odees collages it had effect on my work by giving me the idea of and ocean for my foreground and background
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
So Odee was describing himself and how he describes his art.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas,culture,etc. While you researched your inspiration?
One generalization from Odee was that he didnt want to be associated with the typical artsy people and their sterotypes.
What is the central idea and theme around your inspirational research?
The central idea and theme around my research was to put feelings in my piece, from Salvador Dali and don't think about it too much, from Odee
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
I inferred that Odee wanted to visually express himself instead of making art.
Bibliography
1.“I Create Digital Colleges To Express Myself Visually.” Bored Panda,www.boredpanda.com/digital-collage-art-from-iceland/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic.
2. “15 Things You Didn't Know About The Persistence Of Memory.” Mental Floss, 21 May 2018, mentalfloss.com/article/62725/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-persistence-memory.
2. “15 Things You Didn't Know About The Persistence Of Memory.” Mental Floss, 21 May 2018, mentalfloss.com/article/62725/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-persistence-memory.