Between Color & Memory with Iqra Adam

Well, if you talk about the medium, I think I'm still exploring a lot of new mediums.

Oil is one medium I'm not very much drawn to right now because I think you need a lot of expertise to go for the oil paintings.

Although I try to integrate that into my paintings, but I think that's not something...

Because I make... what do you call it? Like abstract.

So, um, in abstracts, if you go with the oil, uh, I'm not sure if I'll be able to go to that level so far, but right now I'm actually exploring towards, um, inks.

Acrylics is something I'm already using.

Um, I mean, from, from the very start, uh, I actually started with acrylics with the fluids and everything.

But, um, at that point, I think acrylics with the inks is something I'm exploring.

And, uh, Since, you know, I actually do two different kinds of works.

So for the colored ones, I have a lot of mixed media that goes with it.

But for the monotones, I think I feel that acrylics would do the job very well.

So I just stick to acrylics for the monotone paintings that I

make.

And why do you stick to acrylics?

because um although we can introduce i mean i can introduce uh inks in there as well but i i really need the movements and i really want the movements to be there for for a longer period of time so when i do my monotones i actually try to um make different consistencies and i use water a lot of water actually in there just so that it uh helps me it actually helps me to move to let the paint move around and i can do all the textures and everything and then i leave it and then after like three four hours i come back to it and it's still not that dry so that gives me ample time to actually get more into it and dive more and then like um brainstorm my thoughts and get back to it and then do it again and like keep building on what i have at the start so That's why I just try to stick to acrylic so far.

And because in monotones, I only need black and white.

I don't need anything else in there.

I just need the thoughts.

To go onto the canvas.

Rather than colors.

So that's one of the biggest reasons.

I'm just sticking with the acrylics.

For the monotones.

But for the colored ones.

It's like all the things that I can think of.