Oh he did make mud, and looked quite shocked when it happened. Lol But he sure did know how to get me off my derrière. Lol
Thanks again for your lovely comments.
If anyone was wondering how I made the original it was straightforward. I would put either gobs of paint in a spot, or multiple colours and use a palette knife or a drywall mudding utensil to spread across the canvas. See what happens. Or apply paints to the edge of utensils and smear on. It’s really just about mark making. And all that is for anyone who doesn’t quite understand what I mean, is there’s many ways you can make marks on your paper or canvas. And you don’t always need to use traditional art tools. Play around and see what happens. The biggest thing with paint is not to create mud. It all starts mixing together and it literally looks like mud. And then it’s just playing around with what you see. You know, elements of design. Composition. Start to pick up on things on the canvas you like or you don’t like. Where do you want to focus for composition. What you put in what you take away. Does it serve the painting and what you want to accomplish/ what you want to convey?Depends on what you’re going for. Do you want balance? Do you want it not to be balanced, but yet it can’t be completely lopsided. What to keep in, what to take out. So many ideas to play with. You can play with colors do you want primary colours? Do you want complementary colours? Are you wanting something subdued, and tonal? For years I was very careful, but you don’t grow if you don’t try and experiment. I definitely recommend using your photo editing or an app just to play around with the most basic things. Before we would always do that on the canvas. All of us traditional artists did. Which sometimes work in our favour and sometimes led to disaster. However, disasters are becoming very rare now, so I guess I’ve grown enough there. But in other ways, I’ve tried to push myself more. It truly is the only way you grow. But we can do a lot of it on our phone now, even if it’s just playing with simple lines, colour, working with shapes or filling areas in. So you can play around and see what you like without jeopardizing your actual work.