Pour art reflections

With the new paint pours I created this term, I specifically played around with the composition  of the paint on the canvas. I found it interesting to manipulate the direction in which I poured the mixture/ pigment onto the surface of the canvas.

I also tried to exit my comfort zone with my colour choices. I usually tend to create work using a selection of colours that I don’t sway from and I think this can lead to incredibly visually samey and limiting work that leaves you in a creative and aesthetic pigeonhole. I incorporated colours that I’d typically deem as unattractive to switch up the appearance of my work and challenge my established ways of working. 

Next time, I will put more time and effort into how I prep the backgrounds of my pours, as I think a flat singular colour doesn’t harbour enough depth to make the painting captivating visually. To achieve this, I’ll practice painting gradient backgrounds with a variety of colour blends alongside painting different shapes and textures into the background before applying the pour. 

Next, alongside spending more time and adding more detail to the backgrounds of the pours, I also plan to create paint pours on much larger surfaces, alongside figurative painted elements (such as my thumbnail for Gehenna). These works were primarily made using a static pour technique, rather than spinning the pours on my painting wheel. I think the pours definitely look more interesting, vivid and complex after being spun on the wheel, so this is also a change I will incorporate into my future paintings.