David Ryan Lopez - Fire and Ice30 x 43in (76 x x 104cm) oil on canvas done in 2008 Pour and flow paintings evolved over many years from florals to landscape to more abstract expression. Lopez was moved by the impressions he created but stymied by the limitations of the canvas' flat surface. He discovered a new way of working with the pour and flow technique while on a trip to Santa Fe, N. M., where he happened upon the work of an artist who taught him to manipulate the canvas in