I wanted to create a series of pipes that would allow me to pour different colour liquids into it at different points and let them split and meet up, like the paint drip video. I had some bad attempts at making clear pipes with rolled up acetate (They exploded at the seams and gave the walls a new coat of paint) During a tutorial, my tutor Liz Spillane told me about clear tubing out in B&Q. You can buy connectors too, so that was perfect for my pipe maze idea.
I used the helpful lads in the materials store to make my frame.. I was going to place the tubes against a sheet of mdf and pin them in place but I decided an open frame would be better as you could see the colours moving through the pipes more clearly.
I used syringes (and the help of Mr. Finnerty) to push the paint into the tubes. They mixed at each point, so red and yellow mixed, green and yellow mixed, then both mixtures carried on until the bottom where they were spat out onto a sheet of paper.
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