Experiences happen in moments.
Some moments are planned while others are spontaneous. Spontaneous moments can happen anytime and anywhere. One such moment took place within my college compound and on my way out.
Another college had set up a fare with goods for sale, foods to eat, games to play and live performances to fill your senses. It was a sensory treat and among everything there was the Fluid Painting workshop by YourVista.
Initially I planned to buy one of the paintings for sale, while we waited for our food to be prepared. After all any painting must take time to make, right? Wrong, turns out fluid painting takes only around 5 to 10 minutes to complete. Now, if you get the choice between buying a pre-made painting and, making your painting and experience something new, at the same price. What would you choose? Well, I chose to make memories.
With my plastic gloves on and three colours (blue, white, purple) picked, I was ready to take on the blank canvas and turn it into something amazing. The first step was to hammer thumb-pins under the canvas at the four corners, to enable the excess paint to drip off. The next step was to create layers of paint.
For this step, we took a paper cup and pressed one side of it to form a beaker. After that alternately pour the different paints into the cup through squeeze bottles, until the glass is half full.
Once the paint was ready, I had to make the choice of which pouring technique I wanted to follow. The swirl technique or the tilt technique. The swirl technique involved the pouring of paint dirctly over the canvas in a circular motion starting from the centre and then moving out towards the edges.
Whereas, in tilt technique, the canvas was put on top of the glass, then the entire thing was turned upside down. After which, around 5 -10 holes needed to be punctured at the bottom of the cup to get the paint moving in a pattern. A few seconds later, the cup is removed and the paint is allowed to flow freely over the canvas. The canvas is tilted and moved around until the entire canvas is covered in paint. It is then left to dry.
The painting was given to me in a box along with a stand, which I carried back home and left to dry for a few hours.
Seeing the paint flow over the canvas and the layers make different coloured patterns is a surreal and exhilarating feeling. Since one never knows if it would look good or not. But, the moment I saw the paint cover the canvas and the patterns form an image, I was in love.
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