Mother Of Pearl
Painting, striped paintings: Now with iridescense.
"Mother Of Pearl, squared".
Watercolour crayons and iridescent oil crayons on manipulated size A4 paper, mounted on yellow paper, this paper in turn cut up into stripes and mounted on black painted size A3 paper. The bottom paper painted with iridescent acrylics paint, then cut up into stripes and mounted on white painted size A2 paper. The new bottom paper painted with iridescent acrylics paint in the exact same colours as those which were painted on black. 2018. Around DIN A2 size
The iridescence will be revealed as you move in front of the painting. If you stand still it will look like this (a static photo from the front like that above will not show the effect.) Read on for extra photos, to see the mother-of-pearl effect.
Top: seen from right, light coming from left
Bottom: seen from left, light coming from left