Gorgon's Grotto 🔱 MASSIVE 48x60 canvas! Multiple StraightPours in only 4 colors! Amazing cells!

Hello Friends! I love the way this Gigantic canvas came out! This is the biggest canvas I have poured on so far, it was so much fun! I painted my corners and edges Black before I started so I wouldn't have to worry about them.

I used 4 colors:

DecoArt Americana Decor 24K
DecoArt Americana Decor Emerald Green
DecoArt Americana Classic Black
Arteza Phthalo Blue

My pouring medium was Liquitex Pouring Medium, a little water and then Floetrol.

There is NO SILICONE in my paints. I am doing multiple straight pours onto this huge canvas, so I'm keeping my paint thin, and my basecoat a bit thinner than my other paints.

In a straight pour the paint is poured from up high onto the canvas, and it churns and mixes the paint, creating lots of bubbles. When you torch the bubbles you get cells.. very cool stuff! I'm a bit obsessed with straight pours at the moment lol..

My pouring cup was not carefully layered, it was a Dirty Cup (meaning the paint is poured from up high into the center of the pouring cup, into the color beneath it). I think one reason the cells stayed so nice in this piece is that it took me a while to pour all the straight pours, so the cells had time to develop on their own before I tilted anything. I also stretched the paint all the way down to the other end of the canvas so there was not a lot of paint left on there for them to spread out on, and they stayed put.

I love all the little cells along the sides, that beautiful curve brings movement and flow into the painting and gives the illusion of water moving. There is a section that has hundreds of tiny blue and green cells against a black background that makes my heart very happy 🥰

I'm very happy with how this turned out, I think because I just tilted it to cover the corners and then tilted it to encourage the cells on the sides. I didn't try to change the composition once the cells started. I think I had almost the perfect amount of paint on there, I still had to stretch to get to the edges, but that opened up all these beautiful areas on the sides so you can see what's hiding in there. There is Magic in straight pours! 💫

My husband and I tested out using multiple cameras and a microphone for this pour, because the canvas was so big. I was also pouring outside, under a pergola, and at one point the sun shifted and created a shadow on the canvas..so I was very happy we had another angle to show you with no shadows. There were a few different cameras shooting this time.. but I dont think we will do that again with that many cameras,maybe just a couple (it made editing very complicated).. I'm not crazy about the microphone but I did want you guys to be able to hear what I was saying. Forgive any heavy breathing you hear, that canvas was a full body workout LOL! Heavy when fully loaded with 144 ounces of paint (9 sixteen ounce cups!)

I've titled this piece 'Gorgon's Grotto' because it reminds me of a deep underwater cave.. Gorgon's Grotto is also the name of one of my favorite succulents, Echeveria Gorgon's Grotto. That name has always conjured images of shadowy depths and a cave guarded by a Genie.. 🔱

I hope you all enjoyed watching this, and I hope you all try a big huge canvas, they can be a lot of fun if you plan it correctly. You might want to have someone help you tilt it tho 😁
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