Fluid Art: Resilience in Motion
This has been a busy week for my Art from the Hartt business. Fall is coming and I feel like Santa’s elf. I love working with the fall colors.
This year I got into fluid art or pour painting. It’s a lot of fun to see what paint will do if you put it in layers in a cup then flip it over on a surface. Or, just pour it slowly from the cup.
There are a lot of different ways to unleash Isaac Newton’s artistic talent with fluid art. Spin it around. Pour it over or through something with texture. Add oil and heat for some super dynamic effects. Or, break out the blow dryer and blow it around into a pattern. The list goes on because the paint bends and blends in unique ways with every piece of art.
Painting A Picture Of Resilience
Why am I talking about fluid acrylic paint on my resilience blog? Because, it’s resilient stuff. That’s the magic of it. It’s therapeutic to watch the colors dance on the surface of whatever you are painting.
In physics, resilience refers to the ability to deform elastically and return to the original shape. When you stretch or spin liquid acrylic paint, it becomes very elastic – stretching as you tilt the surface, but flowing back as you tilt the in another direction. The paint doesn’t return to it’s exact original position or there would be no art. But, if I take colored water and put it on a canvas, it would just run off the edge. It is the elasticity of the paint that allows us to make stunning designs with pour paint.
Fluid art is therapeutic. It is like watching magic when you flip that cup. Yes, artistic talent goes into color choices and mixes. It goes into technique. Yet, each time the paint does something unique that can’t be recreated no matter what.
Fluid Art Is Like Life: Flipped Over and Torched
Fluid art is like life. We get put into situations with other people, flipped over, twirled around, and torched. If we are too fluid, we spill over the edge without making anything of ourselves. If we are too rigid, we don’t flow and there is no creation. But, if we are just right, we flow with the others. We bounce around. We change in the process because that’s resilience. In the end, our true color is still shining through.
If you are an artist or a lover of art, what do you find therapeutic about the process of creating art? Where do you see resilience?
Art From The Hartt: Fluid Art Process Reels
Below are some of my Instagram reels of my pour paint processes. Watch the paint’s resilience.
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Resilience - The Very Stuff Of Life 
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