the making of “Orphic Jasper 1and2”

I watched a great YouTube video by @MollysArtistry and decided if I was going to do a painting inspired by the colours of Halloween, I’d better get at it. I chose two 12” x 12” Level 3 canvases from Michaels.

Canvases

Painted the two deep edge canvases black with Artist Loft Soft Body acrylic paint right from the bottle.

All colours were mixed with Liquitex Gloss Medium, Floetrol and water. For colours, I chose:

Black: Artist Loft Soft Body https://www.michaels.com/soft-body-acrylic-paint-by-artists-loft-32oz/10183990.html

White: Winsor & Newton Professional Titanium White https://amzn.to/3GFXV5X

Red: Liquitex Artist Color Cadmium Red Deep Hue https://www.michaels.com/liquitex-heavy-body-acrylic-2oz/D240519S.html

Orange: Liquitex Artist Color Indio Orange Red https://www.michaels.com/liquitex-heavy-body-acrylic-2oz/D240501S.html

Yellow: Liquitex Basics Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue https://www.michaels.com/liquitex-basics-acrylic-paint-4oz/D249482S.html

Ring Pour

After carefully layering a cup for each painting, starting with white, then yellow, orange, red, black, orange, red, yellow, I did a ring pour. I wanted to be sure the colours were in a particular order as some of these could create colours I didn’t want if they mix together.

Wrecking

Using a skewer, I dragged it through the wet paint to make an interesting pattern before tilting to spread the paint over the canvas. This can create cool designs in the final piece.

Orphic Jasper 1

Orphic Jasper 2