Visual Art Tip
PinBall
Machine Effect: One person has an idea, who tells it to another
person, who takes it, and changes it and comes up with another idea,
and "bounces" it on to someone else.
This visual art tip is the result of a verbal/visual "pin ball machine"
effect. Some while back I'd posted a verbal art tip on the usefulness
of combining media, in this case acrylic glazes and watercolor. A few
months later I got an email from Connie McLennan that read in part:
I
did just have a revelation triggered by reading the word "glazing"
in your
recent tips thread, though! I have been struggling with creating
flow-y blobs that look like ink dispersing in water, which are also
permanent enough to allow me to paint the color of the water around
them. Have been experimenting with watercolor and dyes, and was
planning to spray them with workable fixative before overpainting --
before I read your thread and realized/remembered I could do exactly
what I needed to do using thinned acrylics for the flowing blob
colors, letting them dry, and painting the color of the water around
them (hand slapping forehead.)
Which
of course pleased me no end!
The
subject that Connie McLennan was painting were pages for her book
Octavia
Octopus and her Purple Ink Cloud Sylvan
Dell Publishing
ISBN 0-9764943-5-3 April 2006. This is the title page showing the
floating ink blobs that the book's heroine, Octavia, had made. It
shows Connie's success in keeping the coloured "ink blobs"
separate, and not mixing and dulling the rainbow effect, and keeping
them "in the water", but not mixing with the blues.
Connie
was kind enough to allow me to use her images that show the use of
her version of this "art tip" on keeping the flowing
feeling of the "ink colors" while surrounding it with
water,and not have the two mix. She also said about the pages below:
"It
was particularly important that the edges of the orange-yellow-red
colors not mix with the (opposite) blue color of the water."
Reprinted
by kind permission of Sylvan Dell Publishing and the illustrator
Connie McLennan.
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