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Could the oil be on fire, raging, and frothing like the sea from whence it came? |
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Painting with structural color. Hmm. |
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Carefully lay a large sheet of paper on top of your finished "oil on water painting" so that it floats on the surface, then lift it out and allow to dry flat. You'll have a permanent record of the artistic image you created, just like the way fancy marbled paper is made. |
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Is that how marbling is printed? I had always assumed that the paper was in the water below the ink layer and gently pulled up through the ink. I guess that would make a mess, though. |
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I was waiting in a shopping centre car park the other day and there were very few cars around and i was looking at the stains that were left in the spaces by anonymous cars that had leaked oil onto the concrete. Its amazing to think that these things leak all over the place. I thought about photographing the blotches and seeing if there were any mysterious faces or signs from the otherside trying to tell us something in some spooky way. |
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Brilliant...although these art pieces could only be laid horizontal, but thats not an issue, I imagine entering a gallery where people stand surrounding a piece on the floor similar to street art. And what [mensmaximus] said witht the fire. Including one type of oil thats flamable, and the rest non. The fire would just dance around the water enhancing the image, different types of oils would burn different colors. adding dyes to the water would change the background color, and hide away all the spophisticated water jets and what not. I would love to see this done [+] |
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Burning, rising, marbled, oily bubbles. |
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Well, I'd add ten lbs. of aluminum 'sprinkles', add a sound system hooked up to a servo amp that drives a water pump feeding the centre of the pool. Three projectors hooked up to an audio colour organ aim down on the pool in a dark room. With lighter fluid the bubbles may be higher. This suggestion was loosely based on my experiment of bouncing lit lighter fluid on an aluminum foil coated speaker cone. I should have added some water. |
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I started building one of these in 1989! Great minds think alike? I only completed the small prototype of the pool and the eraser/oil-recycling section before leaving that employer. It was a shallow black water-filled tray which continually overflowed into another narrow tray around the border. Tiny oil droplets falling from above would create brilliant rainbow explosions, then be swept off the edges where the oil built up and could be pumped around for another go. For best effect, the optics are important: the water must look dark (use a black-painted pool,) and the pool must be positioned near a brilliantly lit white wall. Because the oil droplets expand rapidly, it works more as a dynamic "fireworks" sculpture rather than a display device for detailed images. |
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