I found the artist. Her name is Amika, she's an Architect, Artist and Entrepreneur.
"I had started The Oblivious Mind as a small business selling handmade products and making floral paintings. But over the years my art style changed drastically and I fell in love with abstract art. Now, I am a full time intuitive abstract artist whose happy place is around colours and paints. My art revolves around basic shapes, lines and dots with a touch of colour all combined together to create an intuitive composition. In this journey, ‘trusting the process’ has become my ‘mantra’ and getting lost in the creative process my routine."
Specimen, Fanette Mellier
Context: Pôle graphisme de Chaumont, 2009
Printed by: Imprimerie du Petit-Cloître
Description: 120 × 176 cm
This poster, announcing a series of “graphic design and publishing” themed shows, isn’t a conventional image. It’s more of a printed object linked to its subject. The front, fully saturated with color and technical elements related to printing (scale 1), is offset printed with a very thin raster. This space saturation, like an obsessive canvas, presents graphical tools that are a common vocabulary for books makers. The title and info are printed on the back. The fold lets the title appear: the poster becomes informative and evokes at the same time the delicate materiality of a page.
Since we're talking about abstract art, I don't think I've shown these off before.
So the basic technique is:
1. Start with a black canvas.
2. Swirl dish soap in a cool pattern on the canvas. (The soap will be the black lines later)
3. Spray the canvas with spray paint. The paint slides off the soap, but will dry on the non-soaped bits.
4. Wait for it to dry, then gently rinse the canvas to get the soap off and air dry it.
You can also spray paint the canvas first, let it dry, then soap, and spray black (or another color) over it. (Which is what I did for the last one. I also washed that one more aggressively, which got some cool texture stuff going on)
I was sorting through a decade's worth of dozens of art supplies, scribbling some quick lines with each one, testing them to see if they still work and if yes, how well. This here is what accidentally came of it.