Painting in the traditional way using oils in particular portraiture I was keen to try the new Acrylic paints that claim to be as good as oils.

Dianna Peal Dress

Excellent time saving ability, but was deeply disappointed with skin tones which always looked inferior to the oil paints aesthetic glowing ability.
Quickly realizing that Acrylic were more suited to exploring and design. Started to experiment more into abstract expressionism and colour reinitialized discovering discords in various shapes and colour abstract contrast. Because of the use of water and its quantity playing a large role in my work I found that its watercolour quality was not as good as watercolour on canvas so changed to watercolour paper which suited my speed of painting and decided to experiment with ink which gave a more intense brighter colour on paper.
Composing with colour become much more fluid and began to consider the positive and negative space and how the less interference with a brush and more self believe in the quality of tools you can create weight and visual balance of colours, achieving different harmonies, dynamic contrast or discords in the composition.

Jhon Cleese

Allowing colour to find its own natural dispersion and withdrawing any interference become antagonizes and juggling the different colour relationships to achieve harmony becomes passive at variance with its adjacent colour area. What looked like an abstract when adding an horizon for the eye to settle on, and allow the brain to accept it as a seascape or sunset landscape was able to stimulate the illusion of light by juxtaposition of colour stains and accidental dispersion and intermingling of colours.
Experiment with the horizon line Scratch interference colours or applying genuine gold is in process, using acrylic inks,paints and watercolours on paper and canvas.
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City mega Buildings Skyline Painting by Eraclis Aristidou (c)