I started painting in the traditional media – watercolour, acrylic, and oils 20 years ago. During Covid, someone gave me a kit for doing Fluid Art. I had always wanted to do some type of painting where the paint flowed where it wanted to flow and I just stood back encouragingly. I wondered what could happen but wasn't sure how to begin. Three and a half years later, I am still creating abstract and semi-abstract with runny, messy paints that I torch, blow-dry and spin. The paint goes everywhere and I get really painty. And I love it. Very freeing. And don't we all need to feel a little bit more free? I think so.
The Process: Fluid Art can be very simple, controlled, and quick if you want it to. You can produce a work in a short time once you've prepped. Sometimes the prep takes longer than the work, but all in all, you can produce something nice in a couple of hours. Some of the techniques that I use are not simple, not controlled and not quick. And many times they fail. But Fluid Art is an evolving process and most of us who have taken the plunge think nothing of scraping and redoing a piece over and over until the masterpiece appears. It can really be what you want it to be.
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