Pastels flip cups

 Good evening guys,

I decided to do a little experiment with layering the same colours in different orders to create some flip cup canvases. I chose to use Artiste paints in Canary Yellow, Tea Pink, Dusty Rose, Sage mixed with a little Soft Green and Pearl Frosted Mint. I also used Hobbycraft ready mixed Cerise and added gold glitter to the yellow. All of these were mixed 1:1 with Floetrol and then made to the same consistency with water. The exception is the Hobbycraft cerise which ended up being way too thin, so I used this mix and added a single pipette to a cup of floetrol to get the thickness I needed.

The yellow was in the middle of the layers for this one, but you usually expect the top layer to be the main colour on the canvas, so this was unusual. The colours made a really cool background and the yellow looks like some form of animal reaching through the canvas. The cerise made some interesting cells in the top end of this yellow streak.

In this one the layering allowed more mixing of the yellow with the pinks, so instead of yellow we have a lovely peach through the background. Again the pastel colours have made for a lovely dream-like background, and this time we have an orange and green streak through the middle. Unfortunately the cerise has once again caused the formation of quite a few cells. To me this looks like some form of fungal sprouting body with spores.

This layering allowed the tea pink to really stand out, which once again was in the centre of the layering. the yellow has really popped through the blue, but there was a cell forming when the flip cup was poured, and initially this looked kinda cool. By the time the painting had dried the following day this cell had become much, much larger and now looks like a slice of orange has been placed on the canvas, which was upsetting. The cerise has only made small cells through this canvas which has created a much more delicate look (if it wasn't for the alien orange slice).

I would like to enter these into the following challenges:

SimonSaysWednesday - Quite Quirky

SundayStamps (I couldn't see rules that stated I needed to stamp on my project so apologies if I did need to) 384 Pastel Portraits

InspirationStation #84 Springtime (took inspiration from the colours)

Thanks for taking the time to look and your feedback (and which one of the resulting canvases is your favourite) would be much appreciated.

Hugz Tinz