Once you open your eyes to optical illusions in real life, the options you can paint are growing. Colors can create illusions, just as lines or triangles. Bridget Riley is a master in turning them into art. I look at her artwork and try to relate it to real life. In case you like to join, there’s a painting challenge halfway the video. I hope you will join.

The video about the artwork on the wall behind me:    • 7 reasons why you should make art lik...  
An interview with Bridget Riley:    • Bridget Riley | In Conversation with ...  

Painting Challenge: squares
Submit your artwork on or before April 28, 2023.

The exercise is shown and explained in the video: look at the aet of Bridget Riley and look for optical illusions around you and see where this will take you. All is good. You’re free to choose your art materials, size, color, the art tools you use or whatever. Complicated or simple, make one or more paintings, just surprise me. Whatever you do: enjoy the magic of making art and remember: create to express, not to impress. So any artistic level is okay. Be you and have fun making it.

Also mail me your first name and the country you live in, so I can put them next to your artwork in the video. I appreciate it very much when you also send me a line or two about what you experienced while making your artwork. Did you learn anything, enjoyed playing like this or ran into trouble? I just love to hear from you. Please submit your artwork before March 18, 2023. Just take your phone and snap a picture looking straight down at your artwork, preferably using daylight, but no direct sunlight on it.

My emailaddress is: [email protected]
Thanks for participating.

Materials
The art materials I use in the videos are not sponsored.
I prefer to work on multipurpose paper, more info in this video:    • How to choose the RIGHT paper for you...  
In almost all my videos I use with Winsor&Newton Galeria acrylics, if not, I will say so in the video.
Other materials I use are in random order: 5, 10 and 40mm brushes, palette knives, acrylics medium, Ecoline liquid watercolor, Lyra color pencils, Lyra soft pastels, oil pastels, Stabilo color pencils, paper palette pad and basic masking tape. I also use household items like a permanent marker, scrub sponge, scissors, paper towel, and so on.

Support
In case you like to support me and the channel, here some suggestions:
1 Watch the video until the end, this is a positive signal to YouTube
2 Leave a comment, I just love to read about your thoughts
3 YouTube shows a ‘thanks’ button below the video, thanks in advance

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