Fluid painting

After exploring the visual elements that I feel are most prominent in the Indigenous culture, I decided to look into art work that strongly represented the line, pattern and colour in the aesthetic. After remembering looking at a nail painting technique called water marble and remembering the music video for Tame Impala in which they poured and layered different coloured paints onto a silhouette to make the human form into a vibrant, abstract shape, I decided to research further into these two techniques and tried to find any that were similar in the artistic field. After research, I found a technique of abstract, psychedelic painting called fluid painting.

Fluid painting is a form of painting where you continually pour paint onto a wet surface of choice and use different colours to pour into the spot of paint previously poured onto the page. In doing so, this creates a series of colourful rings in each section of the page and can be manipulated by moving the surface around to drip the paint into different patterns or even use a thin object such as a pencil or a toothpick to drag the colours into desired shapes, patterns and forms.

I found this particularly interesting and managed to find a series of successful and contemporary fluid painting artists such as Nancy Wood, whose own painting I have found reflect quite an organic concept, deriving from possibly using natural forms to inspire her ideas. I also found the printing artist Leif Podhajsky whose concept derives from looking at ideas of connectedness, something I could relate to immediately with my own work.