Random photo?

Washing up bubbles

I love seeing iridescent colours on oily water or soap bubbles. It comes from the surface of the liquid being only a few nanometers thick. The top of a bubble will be thinner than the bottom of it as the liquid moves down with gravity. There are two surfaces, inside and out. When light hits the surface of a bubble it can reflect off the top and bottom of the surface and you get interference patterns… Some reflections enhance the colours and others can cancel each other out… This is what causes iridescent or rainbow colours.

Kaleidoscopic

Another experimental piece. There were 6 bottles of new iridescent acrylic paint at art group. Each bottle had a little cap inside the lid to stop the paint leaking out. They all had paint adhering under the caps so I used them to create dots of colour. The central yellow circle was created first using all the paint under the cap swirled round in the surface of the canvas. Each other dot only used the paint under the caps and making an uneven surface. The extra patterns were brushed on afterwards.

I see a central sun serrounded by a white path, that in turn is circled by trees then flowers. Or a kaleidoscope.

Another WIP

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After finishing my ‘green people’ I’m about to start work again on this kingfisher painting. I intend to try and leave the background quite blurred and try and get a lot of detail into the Kingfisher. They really are the most beautiful of birds, with iridescent plumage. It’s acrylic on canvas as usual. About 10 x 14 inches? Maybe slightly bigger than that. Might do some more to it today.

I think you can see these down on the river Trent, although I don’t know if there is too much fish there for them.