Living in this fast-paced world, it’s clear that we want to learn things and learn them fast. It’s obvious that in order to reach the pinnacle of a craft or skill, you are required to invest years and years of hard work and dedication. What if there was a way to learn something you always wanted to do but don’t have the time or skill to invest in it. This led to the rise of DIYs (Do It Yourself) where a highly skilled person who’s a master in his field teaching people how to do what he does in a much simpler way and cutting down the skill required to do art.
Gravity is a serene yet dominant force on our planet, yet it’s use in spiral art in acrylic is most seamless. There are endless iterations on how to use gravity to make what you want or just let gravity do its magic. Pendulum paintings are fast becoming a sought-out art form because of the amazing patterns which are being cast out in this type of painting. From monochrome frames to vivid colours on a black or white canvas, who knew throwing colours in a certain direction would lead to it being called a masterpiece.
The beauty behind this art form is that you don’t need that much expertise or experience for this. All you need is some paint, a drill, canvas and strings to tie and suspend your paint on top of your canvas. Now, where it gets interesting is the pattern that’s going to come out from throwing paint in a certain way. The paints behave as a pendulum with its oscillating path and they gradually slow down, creating spirals beyond comprehension. Its so perfect in its imperfections that you can’t see how to improve the pattern in its own right. Little excessive paint at the end of oscillations and stream of paints flowing while oscillating is nothing but a sight to see. Be it acrylic colour being poured onto canvases via a stool or spray, it doesn’t matter as gravity is always there to turn it into spectacular.
One of the Renowned artist who exploited this art to its fullest and carved out-worldy art into this world was Jackson Pollock. Creaing a name for himself in the domain of abstract art, his art looked like an expression which was hard to comprehend by some of the finest art collectors and critics. For most it meant that he was conveying his felings via art coz there was no start or end to his painting style. It looked overdone in places but balanced perfectly when seen as a whole. His true marvel is his style in which he threw paints on the canvas, making his paintings look the same to the public but different in the eyes of critics.
In the spirit of DIY, There’s an old man by the name of Tatsuo Horiuchi who is an digital artist but his method is so unconventional, it even surprised the editors of Great Big Story which is a Youtube channel. He’s making art in MS Excel spreadsheets which is unheard of. He had no skill in paintings but he wanted to make art such as the japanese scenaries like waterfalls, reflections, blooming of flowers in trees, etc. He lacked the skill in mixing colors to create more vivid colors in real life due to which he switche to MS Excel and found so many colors in different gradiants through which he could work on. He used the line tool and bucket tool to make trees and inversions of shapes to make relfections and trees. Its truly a marvel that something so minimal, simplistic and cheap came out of a printer rather than a canvas. He even won many competitions and has truly popularised what could be achieved by software that wasn’t even designed to fullfill the purpose of painting. His journey continues to go on and he’s trying his best to sell his paintings and enjoy his retirement.
The DIY culture is a fast-growing community spanning people of all age groups who want to things their way and make art to inspire more people who haven’t joined this DIY cult yet. It’s people like Tatsuo Horiuchi who are coming forward with such innovative ideas to create and legends like jackson pollock who have made sure that this style of art stays immortal in history.
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