Original Painting
Entirely Acrylics on Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas (1.5 inches Deep)
Finished Edges
This giant jellyfish head was a prototype to be shown in an online course, showing how to get the intricate art forms from one simple 'Squish' technique.
Ruth Collis has a technique she invented called the Jellyfish Squish. It's where you take a type of brush and squish thick paint with it to make the jellyfish shape that reveals hundreds of intricate lines all done in a second or two (the bright pink in the jellyfish head here).
This pink part of the head was the largest squish of all made, plus another neat discovery enabled an even bigger jelly head to be made over the first one with a flowing white marbling technique that brought the swirls of white down into the pink jelly head that also created a more fascinating see-through jelly type look.
Thick paint squeezed out of cake decorating tips formed the most intriguing and quite large jellyfish legs. Being slightly transparent with light shining through, this created crystally shadows onto the deep background as the paint rises above the surface. The rich blue brings out the bright pink of this electric jellyfish paint. All this is entirely acrylic paint, and the composition forms defy the borders as the legs wrap around parts of the finished edges canvas. Comes complete and ready to hang.