Autumn or Fall Warm Colors in a Flip Cup

After so much painting with blues and greens recently or really bright primary colors, I fancied a change. I picked a much warmer and muted color palette for this one. My second ever canvas. No crazy experiments, just some painting for fun today.

I used:

• Lemon Yellow
• Orange
• Warm Red
• Burnt Umber

All of the paints were pre-mixed into my squeezy bottles this time. I love using these bottles. SO easy to mix up the paint in all advance and then it’s ready to go when I get time to paint. It’s accurate so if I want to create swipes I can easily apply the paint exactly where I want it, or squeeze the bottle hard to create a jet of paint into my cup and get those colors mixing.

I used my usual mix recipe of:

• 1 tbsp of paint
• 1/2 tbsp of Floetrol
• approx 1tsp of water as needed
• few drops silicone oil

The only different thing I try today, other than different colors, is a double flip. I flip the cup, then I flip it back again, then back facing down. In hindsight it was probably a bit too much and would explain why the painting came out so very orange. I overmixed the red and the yellow paints to create even more orange, when it may have looked better if they had stayed more ‘pure’ to the original colors.

Anyway, take a look at how I got on today  🙂

What a lovely result. It does feel warm, almost comforting to look at. Subtle, not so much in your face as some of my earlier pours. I’m very happy with it.

Check out the slideshow below for more photos, both wet and dry, and closes ups of the details. This one is so calming.