Category: Artwork

Pastels on paper

This is a cover version of a photo taken by a friend for his own lockdown project. It was not technically taken on an actual halcyon day, but meh, close enough. 🙂

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Digital photographs of ice and food colouring on bath

Always one to take a theme literally (if it is going to be cheap and easy enough), I froze a sheet of ice with food colouring outside overnight (it being February at the time). It was not cold enough to actually freeze the food colouring, but enough clung to the ice to provide a bit of contrast. I also did a sort of ice version of a green man during the video call (below).

Pencils on paper

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Collage

This was actually started during a Collage themed meeting, but since it is quite large I didn’t finish it in time, so it languished for a while and was eventually finished when the topic was Flowers. It is a representation of the Cardiacs daisy.

Acrylic on plastic

Acrylic on paper

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Spooky doll

Food colouring and dish soap on milk.

I wanted a chemistry backup in case the fizzy painting turned out underwhelming, so I went with the internet-tried-and-tested ‘dancing milk’ experiment, in which a drop of soap acts on the fat in milk to cause drops of food colouring to go all psychedelic. Video on my Facebook page.

Food colouring/lemon juice on sugar paper/bicarbonate of soda

Of course I wanted to do actual chemistry experiments! This one is to see what sort of art might be produced by acid with alkali reaction, i.e. fizzy painting. Conclusion: I should have filmed the process and might well do it again some time! The above is how it looked after drying and brushing off the powder; the below is the much cooler way it looked immediately after completion.

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Biscuit on plate 😉

For Change, I changed from traditional to culinary arts, with the added bonus of change being part of the yin-yang cycle.

Later update: dangerous imbalance!