Oil Pattern

Below are a series of shots showing the first attempt at working with creating a tape and oil paint pattern.

Tape mask applied.

Oil paint applied and mask removed.

Preparing to spay Turpenoid on the paint in a effort to get it to swirl and run.

Too much spraying and swirling. You can see the spay bottle of turpenoid on the back edge of the panels. I think I had the paint on too thick to get what I had in mind to work, plus I went overboard with the turp. I had seen this video and it made me want to try it out in my studio. (It's a 19 minute video and the portion that I am referring to does not occur until about 15 or 16 minutes in, if you have the time the entire video is interesting.) The artist Jorge Pombo was doing this with an image of Istanbul that he had painted, but I thought I could apply it to the geometric, hard edged patterning I have been doing. I'll try it again with less paint, a little more dry time before spraying, and less turp when I do.

24 hours after spraying it, the oil paint is still very wet despite the amount of turp sprayed onto it.

Forgot to photograph the second tape mask applied to the wet paint, but this image shows the result of some white oil that was worked into the wet ochre color and than sprayed again. I liked how the tape mask removed the wet oil from the surface when it was removed yielding soft edged line.