by Susan Irving

Here are a few things I have been working on lately.  They all started off as acrylic pours. 

The first one, was a pour covering the entire canvas that I was not happy with. So I painted over the sky and parts of the land with ultramarine blue, applied thinly so as to be a bit transparent, then added some small points of light for stars and a few white-ish lines to suggest waves at the bottom of the painting. 

 The second painting was an intentional pour.  I had an idea that I wanted to pour only the bottom part of the canvas to look like mountains.  I then painted in the sky and the moon. Some of it is shiny gold tones, which do not show well in the photo. 

 The third was a very busy pour.  I originally glazed it with Liquitex gloss medium so it was a bit shiny.  After looking at it hanging on the wall for a few weeks, I decided it needed messing with.  So I painted in tree trunks but did not cover them with medium, so the paint is flat, not shiny, but the shiny background shows through. Then I painted a couple of leaves over that layer, using shiny paint with thick raised edges on the leaves only.  It does not show well in a photo, but the overall effect is an almost 3 Dimensional  illusion of depth.

I will probably experiment more with this method in the future.

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