richard.heeks
Squeezing Acrylic Paints Together
I put different colour acrylic paints on two pieces of card, stuck the cards together and then peeled them apart. This is a close-up photo of the resulting lines and shapes.
This is good fun!
When I look at the photo, my mind flicks between seeing lines and valleys. It's probably similar to what psychologists term figure/ground problems, where our brains try to impose three dimensional rules upon a two dimensional image (i.e. a photograph). You are looking at ridges of paint here. The ridges at the bottom right of the shot are probably the most obvious example of ridges.
The colours I used were titanium white, phthalo blue, naphthol red light, and mars black.
I'm fascinated by how these shapes look so much like shapes found in nature, such as branches and twigs, rivers and streams, ridges and valleys. Perhaps, most of all, the patterns remind me of the patterns in leaves.
Squeezing Acrylic Paints Together
I put different colour acrylic paints on two pieces of card, stuck the cards together and then peeled them apart. This is a close-up photo of the resulting lines and shapes.
This is good fun!
When I look at the photo, my mind flicks between seeing lines and valleys. It's probably similar to what psychologists term figure/ground problems, where our brains try to impose three dimensional rules upon a two dimensional image (i.e. a photograph). You are looking at ridges of paint here. The ridges at the bottom right of the shot are probably the most obvious example of ridges.
The colours I used were titanium white, phthalo blue, naphthol red light, and mars black.
I'm fascinated by how these shapes look so much like shapes found in nature, such as branches and twigs, rivers and streams, ridges and valleys. Perhaps, most of all, the patterns remind me of the patterns in leaves.