A couple of months ago I had created this base layer inspired by the work of Marizateria.
Today I revisited the mistake of using acrylics instead of ink. Why? Beacuse I don´t have inks! :D On Monday I had used acrylics which didn´t flow down as the inks in Donna Downey´s collage. And of course there are the INK blots that Leah Piken Kolidas does with ... ermm. you guessed: ink! As Ok Go would say in one of their songs: It´s a disaster/ It´s an incredible mess/ but it´s all we got now/ Yea, that´s all we got.
In come the acrylics doing their best ink impression:
Drops pressed to form blots:
The mermaid was the first to come out to play.
Drops pressed to form blots:
The mermaid was the first to come out to play.
7 comments:
It's still looking good! I like the mermaid.
Do you have a thinner to use with the acrylics? That might help them with their "ink disguise". :)
Thank goodness for "mistakes" and happy accidents on purpose,right? Happy Thanksgiving!
WOW! that turned out great! I have some inks I use on my glazed ceramic pieces I don't like. A client discovered that alcohol inks will cling to glaze and remake it. But on paper they are dull and not much to my liking. These acrylics seem to work just fine - and being acrylics you can always thin them (the beauty of acrylics, they mimic everything else out there). LOVE that mermaid!
I just love mistakes like these! And of course I love the mermaid. ;) And the colors are amazing.
Happy mistakes! I love the mermaid ~ :)
I just tried my first paint blobs last night, and I think I need to get some ink... It does seem that thinning the paint might work. It's neat that you were able to see the mermaids. :-)
The mermaid is cool!! You did just fine without the inks :0)
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