Acrylic Pouring Mixed Art

🎨by Itelchan

  Motivation  

We all agree 2020 has been an extraordinary year, with a global crisis that hits every single one of us differently. A number of natural and social catastrophes have happened from the beginning of the year. However, it is our hands to respond to all this in a positive way in order to grow out of them, the secret ingredient is: Resilience.

  Resilience  

Resilience reflects an ability to “bounce back” and tackle a crisis and/or threat, but also an ability to evolve or adapt to abrupt and potentially long-lasting change. ¹ . In order to achieve Resilience , it is important to find out what helps you diffuse anxiety and fears. For me it was art which helped me out by reducing over-stimulation from external sources, encouraging focus on other things and venting or releasing stress. I decided to give it a try with a new plastic technique for me, as I love learning new things and it would keep my mind busy for a while. I captured things that impacted me and painted hope for the future.

  The Art: Acrylic Pouring  

The technique I chose was Acrylic Pouring. It is a fluid painting technique. It is based on liquid, pourable acrylic paint. This consistency is achieved  by adding a pouring medium and other additives as required. Depending on the technique, these liquefied colors are poured into each other or tilted onto the canvas and distributed by tilting the painting surface, or blown and dispersed with a hair dryer or the mouth. The effects created are very versatile depending on the paint, additives, paint distribution techniques ² .... and somehow you can not totally determine the final result, a certain amount of randomness is always included.  This technique, I would say, is also a good practice to learn: "You can not control it all".

  Description  

The first painting represents the fires in Australia, North America and Amazon in maroon color. The floods hurricanes and tornadoes in a blue color at the bottom. Both invading slowly the greenery.

The second painting is about the Beirut explosion depicted in red color, the civil unrest causing the "Black Lives Matter" movement painted in gold, and the COVID-19 in green, invading it all, leaving almost no free space in between.

The third painting stages the recovery of nature with very big leaves surrounding the painting. A happier range of colors can be interpreted as the clean blue skies, forests recovering in green, and people growing into optimism and enlightenment represented in a luminous yellow.

  Time to vote!  

Displayed are all three painting that form my 2020 collection. I would love to know what you think about them. Please vote for your favourite one and leave a comment if you feel like.