I had mentioned that I would share more of the oil, water, and paint pictures, and am finally getting around to it. Enjoy!
I really like this first sequence, and my roommate and I agreed that they would look cool next to each other on a wall.
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That’s fun! I like the texture the mediums have with the water. Very cool š
Thank you so much!
Very fun concept and great execution. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed.
Thank you so much! And I didn’t even know that I was, thanks for letting me know!
cool experiment
Thank you!
Very cool effects and pic! Sorta hypnotic….:)
Thank you so much!
Very cool, congratulations.
Thanks!
I can totally see these framed in black in a series and lining a wall…so cool!!
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That’s a really good idea! That’s how you know that you think like a photographer…when even the most mundane and ordinary things can be turned into something cool. š
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
Ha thank you so much! I am glad someone sees it as me thinking like a photographer and not just being strange š
Cool. I did something similar with food coloring and water a while back.
The food coloring doesn’t penatrate oil very well though. I’ve also heard of using soap and milk in combination with the food coloring. All this is giving me more ideas for future experiments.
Thank you! I have done the food coloring thing too, it always leads to some interesting results. I have more of them posted in an outtakes post if you are interested I can give you the link to that as well.
This is actually AWESOME! Simple but Artist Science at its finest! Well Done!
Artistic, not Artist š
Awesome pics !!!
This is such a creative idea and the shots are great!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!
hey man
good stuff
Got print-worthy written all over it!
so many ideas for ads flashed across my eyes when I saw these
Congratulations! This was so nice, great job!
Reminds me of the coal gardens we used to make in elementary school in a way.
This is very creative.
prety awesome!
Hahaha,, so sweat, nice post
That gives me an idea. Nice pictures.
Really awesome pictures! I agree, the would like great on the wall
I have always wanted to try this. I have a fascination with water and the many ways it can appear in photographs. These are very cool. Love them.
I have that same fascination, it is always so interesting. Thank you so much!
Wow!!! Great idea! looks like fun! My favourite is the one with lots of bubble(4th pic)!
Thank you! That one is just oil, no paint, and I took it as the oil was being poured in so it didn’t have time to settle at the top.
Pretty!
How many people were working on this? Two? Three?
And how many glasses did you fill until you had those results?
Thanks! It was just me and one other person working on it. And I was just using this one vase, I think I dumped and rinsed it four different times?
Very nice!, how a bout a video capture next time?
Oh that is such a great idea! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that when I was doing this. I will have to do that soon now, thank you for the idea!
Great look. Good photo work too!
There’s always a lot of work in creating new ideas. Love your straight forward approach to
achieve.
Love them! Thanks for sharing!
This is excellent stuff. Quite inspirational.
That is so good to hear, thank you!
Oh I mean it. I want to get oils and waters and good light and experiment. Great stuff!
…and colours! š
Really like the pics, they look so nice and the cool thing is that is not photoshop, is natural, so good for it and keep trying this kinda things
Thank you! And yes, completely natural, and I sure will. Thanks again!
I love your pictures!
Thank you so much š
this is seriously so cool! i really love the pictures. they look amazing. good work!!
Creative and very cool to look at. Water and oil are pretty obvious, but what did you use for the colored medium? Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much! I just used cheap acrylic paint for the colors.
Thats very cool, great idea!
Nice 365’s too on flickr, mine is so close to an end.
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Hi Abigial, great post. I will try this with my eight year old he will love it.
Looking forward to the next one.
Zachary
f*ckin cool! very creative. i dig it.
Wow – these are stunning! Thanks for sharing.
I was blessed in attending the School of Art and Design in New York city as a young man. There is a sheer beauty in simple presentations as this. The Blues and Reds seem to have a life of their own in the color. I find the same holds true with my own poetry work. The poems I have created that have one simple straight to the heart thought, are the ones I love the most. P.S. Thank you for visiting my work. Come back often. We have much in common in how we see life.
Really like it !!!!!!, thank`s for the inspiration.
Cheers!!!
congrats on getting freshly pressed and WOW! Amazing photos. I love how you captured those moments so perfectly! I wish I had your skills. Photography is def a secret hobby of mine.
Nice pictures! very cool.
Love these, especially the second to last one of the red and blue where it looks like sacks of color. Really neato! (I said it)
cool experiment, I would loved to try this one.
cool mixture of colors !
nice shots… will try it sometime.. š
love the burst of colors in the last two photos. really cool stuff! š Interesting experiment + artwork. Keep it up!
eee… fisika.
You are my hero.
Wow thank you so much!
Awesome! yeah, video capture will be nice and fun to watch. Cheers.
cool!!!!! š
never knew paint did that, you captured the intensity very well!
Wow, that looks so cool! The colors look fantastic and it almost looks like a lava lamp. My favorite is the blue/red combo.
It’s really fun and cool! I think it is a kind of version shock. Thank you for your sharing!
capturing these quick moments are what photography were meant to be invented! There was never a painting as a water dropping above from the sky before photography.
who doesn’t like transparent and crystal-like things! it would definitely look cool on the wall, as if time goes in the spatial dimension.
So pretty!
nice
that is nice art right there!!
Bringing out special effects from few normal, daily used materials is just commendable…
You are very creative… The reaction looks fab…
Keep entertaining and amusing…
Nice capturing the process on the camera!
I love it! I’m Facebooking this right now. I think I will do this as a project with my middle school art and design students. Thank you for the inspiration.
It really would be a great project to do with middle school kids! It could teach so many different things, I didn’t even think about it until now. I hope it goes well!
Now, I’m beginning to appreciate a simple work of art, that is; an experimental photo of yours.
Someday, I, too, might be having the chance to study those kind of things.
love your post
This is really awesome…superlike…but how did u manage it?
Thank you so much! I had poured some oil in and let it settle on top of the water, and then just squeezed some acrylic paint into the vase and this is what happened.
I could do this all day long.I just love bright colors and to see them this way is really fun to watch.I will try this at home when im bored.Thanks for sharing!
Nice idea. Keep ’em coming. This one’s unique. Congrats on being freshly pressed! š
Thank you, I will certainly try to! š
Cool!! that is a great idea! š
Awesome stuff!! I will try this at home. š
love ya work!
I love it! You captured the perfect moments of reactions. It is like gazing at the clouds and trying to figure out what shape they represent. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! It really is like that, it is fun to see what comes out each time.
It feels like yesterday and at the same time feels like a hundred years ago since I was an art student playing around with similar ideas, I recall it was coloured ink into a fish tank,.
I do love the colours especially the blue and red, there’s definitely more in this for you so please do keep experimenting.
I think it would be interesting to fill your container with ice and see what happens?
Thank you so much for this post, it’s quite inspirational in a very simple and sublime way…
I always love playing around with different variations of an idea, so I hope to do some more at point. And ice sounds like a cool addition, I think I will try that! Thank you for the suggestion, and I am so glad you enjoyed this!
Great photos, I really do have to invest in a good quality camera….
Thank you! And it is always a good investment!
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cooooooooolllllllllllllllllllll i liked it š
Superb!!!!
Awesome! I’ve always loved these kinds of photos! They’re very artistic in their own way. š
wow! I discovered your blog today and I am absolutely flashed by your pictures. That was something totally new! So amazing! great work – great art!
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cool idea! I got a professional camera some time ago, but sometime cannot get myself hooked to that š
wow, absolutely cool š
Very cool effects. What a creative idea.
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I love the use of natural elements to create abstract images. Very Nice!
What was it that you’re dropping into the water?
In the ones with color it is acrylic paint. The first three blue ones I used an acrylic craft paint, and then the red and blue ones I used an acrylic that is a bit thicker. The one in the middle is just oil being poured into the water.
ooooo- love love love!! the movement, textures, colors…would look amazing in my apt in a series…
Thank you so much! And if you would like prints I would be more than happy to do that, just let me know!
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breathtaking !
If I were on mind altering drugs–I’d be so trippin’ at those awesome pictures.
Hahahah I would imagine so
so nice pictures
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So cool! What camera do you have?
I have a Nikon D90. Thank you so much!
Nikon D90 for the win! Thatās what we have and what we use for our special event and portrait business, as well as our art. Hereās the site, itās a partner site of Oh Cheers
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Nikon D90 for the win! That’s what we have and what we use for our special event and portrait business, as well as our art. Here’s the site, it’s a partner site of Oh Cheers š
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wow you’re incredible…simply amazing
These are awesome! Love the colors, and such a cool idea!
I love the HD images of something so unique! Well done!
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Very cool!
This is so beautiful. I’m such a chemistry geek I love everything that spells c-h-e-m-i-s-t-r-y.
I remember a few years ago I was looking for photos like yours just to check out all the fine bubbly shapes that happen, and I never got an awesome pic…. These on the other hand look GREAT! š
Thank you so much! I am glad you finally found some you like a lot š
These are great!
Color, texture, form create unique shots of liquids mingling. Kudos!
Wow these are some great pictures!! And the picture at the top of your page above your navbar literally made me say “Damn”, because that is a really amazing picture! I’m hoping to get a fancier camera too at some point, I’m thinking the Nikon D3100, but I’m not sure if there is something better that I haven’t read about yet. I’ve never used a dslr camera before so it’s supposedly a good one for beginners, and I think it will let me shoot in auto mode until I’m comfortable with manual. Do you think that is a good choice or have any other suggestions?
Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoy them! For a beginner the D3100 is a great camera. It will be something that you can kind of grow into, which will be great. It kind of depends on how serious you are planning to get about photography. If it is just a hobby basically then a D3100 would be great. You can shoot in complete auto mode (with different presets depending on the situation), and then it offers manual mode (a few different versions of that as well) that you can use once you get to know the settings and such. I hope that helps! Feel free to ask me anything else, I always love to help out!
Thank you for getting back to me, I really appreciate it! š I think I’d like to take some photography classes in the future which is why I’m thinking the D3100, but for right now I think I’d like to stick with the auto so I don’t get too overwhelmed. I’ve heard you have to do a lot of focusing with manuals and it takes a while to take a picture when you have to make readjustments, which seems like it would be a pain to me. I love taking lots of pictures though, especially when out with friends. š
What an awesome Idea and Concept! I love them! Well Done š xx
When I saw the name Abigail Thompson, I immediately thought that my friend was hiding some amazing photography. It’s a strange coincidence that you and my friend share the same first and last names. I’m guessing that you are an adult whereas the Abby I know is going into the tenth grade with me next year. I’ve always been curious about what you’ve done here. I just don’t have the materials for it. You are amazing. Keep up with the epicness (insert comment about kids and their vocabulary here…).
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Haha yes, I am an adult. That is quite a coincidence that she has the same name, such a small world! Thank you so very much, I will be sure to keep up the “epicness” (I like that word to describe my work, haha). Thanks again!
you are so talented!
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I Love the colors.The movement ,texture and colors are simply amazing. If you can, drop in to my blog.http://quitsmokingin60minutes.wordpress.com
Awesome! Love it!
that is awesome! try adding pink! š
Very vibrant and creative
Awesome stuff!
Interesting visual effects
great idea! i love the effect š you should try more of these, mayby with other colours too.
Thank you so much! And I plan on it at some point, I want to play around with a few different variations on it too, so be sure to check back!
Awesome! Love it – as a Science teacher, these would be great to start off a lesson
It is really funny, I like it too. Did you have try the honey? It is also very cool!
I did not try honey, that could be interesting, I will have to try it. Thanks!
Nice Post! It is really Favorable For the students of Chemistry! i really like it!
i’m going to try that. any tips?
Just play around with it! This is all just done on a whim, making it up as I went, so I don’t know if certain things work and other things don’t. I did use pretty thin acrylic paint, because I am guessing the thicker stuff wouldn’t turn out very cool. I tried it with two different amounts of oil (accidentally), and it seemed like the more oil that there was the more the paint stuck in neat globs (there was more oil in the red and blue ones than just the blue). I hope that makes sense. But like I said, it was all just a random “experiment” so just play around and see what else could work! Good luck!
wow!! awesome!!!! The last picture is uber cool especially… Nice concept!
Since I’m into painting I simply adore what you’ve done here! All your work is just amazing, I’ll sure soon try to draw some of it! Beautiful and unique, all of them!
Thank you so much! I would love to see your drawings when you are done!
nice photos..
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Amazing photos!
I miss experiments. You really captured the beauty. Phenomenal shots. Congrats on FP!
looks fun! the 5th photo really caught my eyes keep it up! š
Beautiful photos, I wish I had a camera set up to take similar. Thanks for sharing and congrats on being freshly pressed!
Thank you so much! It was actually a super simple set up, just some poster board/foam core board and the vase with my camera on a tripod. Thank you again!
Unique photos!!
Oh wow, they definately would look gorgeous on canvas next to each other on a wall! Have you thought about getting them printed really big and long? Like 50″ tall by say 30″ wide? They would make a beautiful addition to a statement wall or hall wall! š Amazing!
I have, but getting things printed that large is so expensive unfortunately. And I am a starving college kid (well, sort of), haha. I do sell prints though, so if you are interested in getting some for yourself be sure to let me know! I am so glad you like them!
Really cool š I like how something so simple looks really amazing.
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THank you so much! I use a Nikon D90. Best of luck to you as you dig deeper into photography!
Very Nice! And the blue and red looking beautiful swirling in the water!
Really cool!
nice pictures!!!
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