Sketchbook - Experimenting with colour

To do this, I created a shape of water and splashed ink onto the paper. The ink will then move with the water and with more colours added, blend and move together to create the shape made by the water. I feel this makes the ink move in a way that is unique and abstract. 

While experimenting with colours, some of the ink blends together in the piece while some of the ink separates in lines forming a type of barrier between the two colours. The ink, when placed in water creates different tones depending on how much the ink dilutes into the water. I experimented with the same colour to see what different tones I can create with just one colour, as well as several combination of colours as well as all together to try and find colours that will blend well together. 

 

























At first, I experimented with the technique by putting ink into the water as a dot, which then expands and dilutes with the water as it moves. The water was splashed onto the paper, creating a less smooth and controlled shape. This creates a unique shape in the water that when different ink colours are placed together,  the ink sometimes stops or blends together, creating unique patterns and lines. With the ink creating different colours and tones with how the water dilutes it, I felt they were effective in creating uncontrolled and free ink drawings that I could use in my project as a form of colour. However, I felt that the ink seemed restricted in the water, and that to improve I will make the piece not restricted to just the shape and find out a way of spreading the ink further around the piece. 

     

To improve on the previous technique, I then decided instead of placing the ink into the water myself, I would draw water onto the paper and then I would splatter the ink onto the paper. The ink would make contact with the water and spread similarly to the way it did before, however the place it made contact seemed less obvious as it faded out better than if it was placed onto the water. I also feel this way some of the splatter reaches outside of the water shape, so it does not make contact with the water and instead makes the piece seem less restricted. As another way of making the ink flow outside of the shape, I also turned the page so that excess water would drip off of the shape and the ink would follow. This made the shape seem less controlled and it also seems less restricted and more free than before. to improve, I will make the shapes seem less controlled by splashing the water I did previously.

To move forward, I will find a way to connect this with my meaning and use this to develop my work. 

 As I let people look at my work in more depth and detail, people began to react as such by trying to make out shapes of the images that can be open to interpretation. People began to react to it and they were similar to a test such as ink blots. These images remind people of ink blots, so to move forward I will research into inkblot tests to see how they can be involved in my work of memories.