Oil Paintings

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What you need

You will need a glass pan (some sort of cooking pan is great for this).

two glasses

A loud shirt

water

olive oil

What to do

Place the loud shirt on the ground (outside works best)

place the two glasses on the shirt, and balance glass pan on top of the glasses.

pour in water so the pan is filled.

drop in drops of olive oil, use as much or as little as you want, experiment with the amount you use.

get your camera ready with a zoom lens is best. zoom into the pan so that the sides are not showing. and shoot away.

as you are shooting you will see the oil moving around the pan, creating new and interesting shapes, the loud shirt under it makes the colours of the bubbles alter as they move.

To give the photo a canvas look, focus your camera so that the bubbles are slightly out of focus. If you focus too crisply they will just look like bubbles without the canvasy look.

Technical details

Camera: Sony Alpha

Lens: 70 -210

Exposure: 1/1000 @f6.3