Turns out abstrct art is hard.

[forgotten_aria]

I wanted to make a splatter painting, where the splatters would represent the beats of a taiko drum. Then, with that base painting, I would paint a drummer on top of it. Turns out splatter painting is way harder than I'd imagined and I got nothing I wanted (the actually out come of the painting is kind of neat, but it's not evocative of drumming.) What did happen is I made my driveway into abstract art too and then got completely facinated by it. Here's a gallery of some of the photos I took.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those are pretty. May I snag one to use as a desktop background?

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you'd like a higher res version of any of them.

[bob-wonderllama.livejournal.com]

Try using paints that are thicker and thinner to mix things up! It gives fun results.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I was, but I think I didn't have a good feeling for it. I also got this awesome affect by washign the whole canvas with water with the paint half dry. A nice negative spatter.

[ringrose.livejournal.com]

...so now you chop out a section of driveway, sell it as art, and use the money to repave the driveway....