Not quite, but also not what I started out to do …
Originally I was planning another attempt at the ‘sunlight on wooden floor’ that I tried already in watercolour here using gum arabic to get the transparency. This time I paid more attention to the actual dimensions of the floor, and that went well.
Then I painted the wood in various browns, which went … ok - I did the usual thing of pushing past the point where it was looking good (with some of the look of wood grain) but even so I had a wooden-ish floor. Then I varnished. Then I tried to put yellow light on it which is where it went wrong. Sadly the yellow acrylic I had was too green, and you can’t mix your way out of a primary colour (I think! maybe I’m wrong). So …
What happened?! Well, the yellow was too acrid, so I threw some red on there to see what would happen, then more yellow and red. Then I added silicone oil because why not? and then varnished the result.
As it happens, silicone oil (presumably polydimethylsiloxane?) and varnish do not work well together. Or do they?
From the side you can see that the surface is all uneven. Also if you touch it, your fingerprint lasts for a few seconds before it springs back into place. Wacky.
I like it, although it is pretty gross.