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Deborah Dougherty

I am 54 and have been painting for 6 months. I work full time for a metal fabrication shop as their Quality Systems and Regulatory Compliance Manager. Although I have no formal education in art I have always loved to create and be a part of artistic expression. Being an avid horsewoman from my childhood days I have spent the past 40 years riding and training my own horses as well as giving instruction in the equestrian sport of Dressage. I have competed at the highest level of the sport and always enjoyed creating musical freestyle rides (a dance for horse and rider!). In 2014 I began lampworking and have created hundreds of beads and sculptural pendants over the past 14 years. In July 2018 I stumbled across a photo of an acrylic flip cup pour and was fascinated by the cells! It reminded me a lot of the type of effects I work to produce in my glass work. Since it was summer and too hot to work with a glass working torch, I decided to give this new form of painting a try! I had a little success with creating cells, mostly with silicone. I tried a ring pour and decided I really didn’t like them. I kept trying to get better with my flip cups but found I was never really happy with the outcome. I tried strainer pours and really liked them but was disappointed after they finished spreading and I lost the symmetry of the freshly poured design. My need to have more control over the outcome was not being fulfilled. Then one day I tried another ring pour and decided it wasn’t so bad after all. I started experimenting with multiple pours on one canvas and then accidentally created my first “galaxy and planets” pour. It is still one of my very favorite paintings! Suddenly I had found a way to pour that satisfied my need to have greater control over the finished piece! I began to expand on the galaxies with planets, then experimented with alternating the ring pours in layers with puddle pours and discovered that it looked a lot like the view through a kaleidoscope. I really enjoyed the challenge presented by creating the layers and designing something that retained its shapes and was pleasing to look at. But it was still missing something. One particular pour was not staying symmetrical and I wasn’t happy with the shapes the elements were taking so I began to play with adding lines into and out of the elements on the canvas using a paintbrush that I had accidentally left sit with paint in it until it dried. The result was exactly what I was after! Now it really looked like a kaleidoscope! And I also had a new tool in my kit, the “Petrified Paintbrush”! Since taking my kaleidoscopes to the next level I have been experimenting with different ways to place them on the canvas and color palettes. I have results that look like flowers, umbrellas and quilt patterns as well as kaleidoscope views. I really enjoy experimenting and stretching my abilities and learning new things about paint and how colors work or don’t work together. I have recently been playing with capturing the drippings off my kaleidoscopes on another canvas because of the beautiful, intricate designs that they create on my workspace! I hate to miss out on the opportunity to create an artwork out of them! Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DKDArtistry Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DKDArtistry/

Deborah’s Kaleidoscope Acrylic Ring Pour

> Supplies I Used: in Dark Turquoise Green (for the negative space and alternating puddle pours), Lake Blue, and Emerald Green in Cadmium Orange Hue, Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue, Phtalo Green, Alizarin Crimson, Deep Violet and Phtalo Blue Pouring Medium: Floetrol mixed at a ratio of 1:1 with each color of paint. Paint Preparation …

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