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W.M. Fluid Art
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Kenyan fluid artist, photographer and writer.
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'Araniek'
series: Sahel
Multiple sensible people, from relatives to strangers, have told me that I need to write about my art: the why, the how, the what. I know they're right, so I'll try. But is it true that if painters could write down what we meant (easier, cheaper) we'd still paint instead?
Araniek is a fluid art abstract painting that looks like a complicated snake. It's executed in yellows, reds, and oranges and intentionally subverts the line between realism and abstraction. There are cell-like structural elements which maintain the continuity of the composition while also challenging and perhaps negating it. I like negative space, becaue that's most of the visual story, in the way that what is written down is only a minor part of what your imagination conjures up when reading. Araniek is a generalised antagonist, and perhaps that's why I rendered it in powerful colours. It's also a question, though: what is it that paints: me or the forces I cannot control?
January 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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'Ahira'
series: #Sahel
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Ahira is an abstract fluid art painting in reds, oranges and black against a stark white background. The figure evokes a masked warrior woman legendary in desert myths. Ahira is the second of the Sahel series. Red and orange bubble-like cells permeate the composition, imparting depth and complexity.
January 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Happy 2025!
'Abenauthyn'
series #Sahel
I painted a few of these fire colour/desert-evoking works because I used to live in a Sahelian country and I was also reading desert-themed speculative fiction at the time. This is what memory and imagination produced together.
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Abenauthyn is a fluid art painting in reds and oranges. Depicts an abstract figure that looks like a mythological form of some kind, possibly with a horn of some kind. The negative space or background is stark white, and little cells of alternating colours are present throughout the composition.
January 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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'Carried Away'
series: #Sea & #Sky
This is the last of this series. Inspired by the magical effects of light and liquid, the motions of clouds and waves, and the imagined natural movements of the fanciful creatures that live mostly in my head.
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'Carried Away' is a fluid acrylic pour painting in blues, greens and hints of pink. It depicts an abstract bird of prey in flight. The bird seems to have something clutched in its claws. The bird's wings are outstretched and seem to be in motion. The composition is set off by a stark white background that forms the negative space. A light shadow at the edge of the composition lends depth and complexity. I used a white 'cell activator' to achieve the thin white lacing overlay over the design colours. Carried away is the third and final installment of the Sea and Sky series in this palette.
December 31, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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'Migration'
series: #Sea & #Sky
Movements, ways of moving, flows, flights, freedom: exploring ways of expressing natural motions.
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'Migration' is a minimalist fluid art acrylic pour painting in blues, greens and pinks against a stark white background. The composition depicts a kind of upside down abstract 'W' or wave shape that also evokes a bird or birds in flight. I used a white cell activator to create a thin white lacing effect over the composition colours. This painting is part of my Sea and Sky series.
December 30, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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'Water Dance'
series: #Sea & #Sky
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Water Dance is a fluid acrylics pour painting in blues, greens, and pink against a stark white background. The painting is on canvas. It depicts 3 abstract shapes flowing together in a loose semi-circle as if they're playfully leaping out of the water. The painting is minimalist. There is much more negative space than composition space on the canvas. The colours evoke both water, or waves, and possibly the sky when there's a gentle sun. Water Dance is part of a series of three titled 'Sea and Sky.'
December 30, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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'Evolution (2)'
I wanted to evoke a fanciful/speculative connection between mythological #dragons and present day #birds. Maybe they're kindred by ancestry or at least human imagination?
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'Evolution (2) is a fluid art acrylic pour painting in greens, orange/copper and black accents as the swipe colour. Created by a palette knife swipe, there's lots of negative white space around the composition, giving it both definition and lightness. I was playing with a diptych that supposes an imaginary connection between mythological dragons and present day birds, although both are rendered in very abstract and gestural forms. This one is the dragon one. The first one, 'Evolution 1' (sorry, forgot to describe that one: please forgive) was the bird one. The unifying factor is the rather simple palette and the flowing movement that suggests aerial or avian flight: a sort of soaring/flying vibe.
December 27, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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'Evolution (1)'
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December 27, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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'Coquette'
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Fluid art painting in greens, blues, yellow and orange. Depicts a flirty cat-ike figure.
December 21, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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'The Lotus Position'
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fluid art abstract art painting in dark teal and maroon against a stark white background. The abstract figure resembles a person attempting the lotus position in yoga. 3 bold movements of the palette knife across and down the canvas impart both form and continuity of the composition. The painting is in a minimalist style.
December 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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'Casper'
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Fluid art rendition of Casper the Friendly ghost. Spectral colours combined with warm pinks and oranges give a welcoming, friendly effect. The fluid art technique of swiping leaves a border of lace-like puffy cells around the edges of the composition. 3 broad strokes create stacked semi circles that are the ghostly curves of Casper.
December 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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'Angry Bird'
An ongoing perk of my #fluidart practice is that sometimes a result is both #hilarious and #surprising. I had no idea this was going to turn out this way, but it made me #laugh when it did. #Art #acrylicpour #artadventcalendar #angrybird #WMFluidArt #WMArt
December 18, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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'There comes a point'
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fluid art painting, vertical orientation, shades of blue and a contrasting black and gray. Long S curve down the canvas with inricate blue lacing. negative space around the outside of the S. middle lower curve has a long trailing black line as if in speech. title of painting is there comes a point.
December 18, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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'Hobby Horse'
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fluid artist. painting in green and purple. composition of abstract horse-shaped head. resembles a fanciful hobby horse. white negative space, minimalist painting. acrylic pour technique with a palette knife. some dotting with green.
December 17, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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'A Parliament'
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December 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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'Fido & Friend'
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December 16, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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'Musical Tendencies'
#fluidart #acrylicpour #art #artadventcalendar #wmfluidart #wmart #musicaltendencies.
December 15, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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'The Colour Orange'*
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*A respectful nod to the wonderful book by #alicewalker #thecolorpurple
December 15, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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"Still I Rise"*
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*Inspired by Maya Angelou's poem (and by some recent events).
December 14, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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'Baby Dragon'
custom colours, palette knifework, spinner.
#Art #artadventcalendar #fluidart #acrylicpour #WMArt #WMFluidArt #dragon
December 14, 2024 at 5:15 AM
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'Wild Goose Chase'
#Art #ArtAdventCalendar #FluidArt #AcrylicPour #WMArt #WMFluidArt Which do you prefer or which is funnier: 'Wild goose chase' or 'wild goose chased'?
December 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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'National Duty' (5/5)
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December 11, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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'National Duty'
Fluid art on canvas.
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December 11, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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'National Duty' (3/5)
A series of paintings inspired by a civil servant friend who made a deeply signficant sacrifice in order to work for the people. I find this decision heroic, and I want to remember it. #artadventcalendar #art #fluidart #acrylicpour #WMFluidArt #WMArt
December 10, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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'National Duty (2/5)'
#artadventcalendar #fluidart #acrylicpour #WMArt #WMFluidart #Art The 'National Duty' series is dedicated to committed and underappreciated civil servants. It was inspired by one particular person, but the sentiment is generalised.
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 AM