Richard Serra vs Sophie TEA...

The artist I've chosen is Sophie TEA. She is someone I've been following for a while now and I really admire her work ethic, she works hard and is constantly changing her mediums and trying new things. My favourites pieces of her work are her abstracts. She uses the most amazing colour palettes and different tools and actions to get the desired effects. Sophie is inspired by aerial views. When travelling on a plane, she always moves to the window seat so she can take photos of the ground. She then brings these shots to her studio and uses them to inspire her composition and colour palette. Here are some examples of her work...

The techniques and verbs she used when making these pieces are;

'To scrape'

'To pour'

'To squeeze'

'To tip'

'To shake'

'To burn'

'To smear'.

'To mix'

'To tilt'

'To blend'

Sophie uses a technique called paint pouring. Acrylic pouring is a painting technique where acrylic paint is mixed with a type of pouring medium and then poured onto a surface in a variety ways. Sometimes colours are poured directly from individual cups, and other times multiple colours are combined into one cup and poured together. After that, the surface is tilted in each direction to let the paint flow and the colours interact in unpredictable, yet always interesting ways. Sophie mixes in a pouring medium to the paint to help the paint flow and blend. It helps keeps the colours separate, so they won't combine into one muddy colour when mixed. It also extends the volume of the paint and helps prevent cracking. She squeezes the paints into plastic cups and mixes up different colours and then tips or pours the cup of paint onto the canvas. The next part is picking up the canvas and slowly tilting and tipping it in one direction at a time until the flowing paint approaches the edge. I have seen videos of Sophie making her abstracts and she uses a palette knife to scrape and smear the paint across the canvas. She then uses a blow torch to burn and create cells of colour within the patterns already formed. What she is left with is luminescent, misty compositions dominated by large areas of colour that seemed to have emerged onto the canvas naturally and organically. She combines the natural flow of paint with her own idea of movement to make beautiful compositions.

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