Original Painting
Acrylics on Flat Canvas Board (painting is 8x11 with 1 inch border)
Framed
This painting illustrates a great example for the Peel Painting 1 online course Ruth Collis formulated as an easy way for artists to get started painting, move through creative blocks, and duplicate works to add more creativity to. The technique for this texture involves squishing thick paint between 2 surfaces that then are peeled apart to reveal hundreds of intricate lines all created in a few seconds worth of time that most anyone can do. The mixing of paint and arranging colors does take extra time.
One can keep the deep ridges, or press again and with new colors added, or press to a new canvas to get smaller but even more intricate lines that are fascinating. This one painting here created 4 extra abstracts that all look different. Then the black outlining here was added when the painting dried, to make the best contrast, which is one way to make the mirror'd copy look different. If you press the copy on to another surface, you will not have a copy anymore, but an all new painting.
This Press & Peel concept could be applied in a large concept like a giant room divider...
