Friday, December 2, 2011

Creative Painting

Artists around the world are always trying to find new ways to create art, whether using technology to create interactive art or using innovative materials to create art. Sometimes, artists find the simplest object and can create beautiful art out of that simple object. One of the things that I found that was interesting was something called 'pour art' where artist would continuously pour different colors of paint in order to create layers of art. I think it is really interesting to see the natural flow of the paint and the combinations of so many different colors create this psychedelic effect to the viewers eyes.


As you can see in the video, the artist has a solid white sculpture set up and she pours the paint onto the top most part of the sculpture. She allows the paint to travel down to the sculpture which creates a ripple effect pattern on the bottom of the sculpture. Another artist that I found has deals with rippling of the paint that was even more amazing was an artist who directly paint on top of water. Apparently, this is an old Turkish way of art. Here is an artist that I thought was really innovative in the way he dealt with paint and water. What was the most interesting part about using this technique is when he transfer the painting on water onto a sheet of paper. Along with the design that he drew on the water, the ripple from the water also translated onto the canvas itself!


There'll also seem to be a lot of artwork that deals with crayons. When we think of crayons, we think of being a kid because that is what kids used to draw and color because the medium is not messy and crayons are really cheap. People have been finding ways to make new ways of using crayons. And what I found a lot was people melting crayons. When you melt crayons, the crayons basically turn into paint but eventually, the crayons dry and hardens again which becomes really interesting because of the new texture. It is also interesting to see the contrast between crayons when drawn by itself which has this waxy, glossy texture and when it's melted, the texture becomes very smooth.