Something new!

My pal Barbara Hagerty set this week’s challenge at Mixed Media Monday – “Something new”… well by sheer coincidence I was reading the Art from the Heart newsletter and the Illustration fortnight challenge just happens to be Blot art! I’ve never tried this before and it sounds very simple, but it really isn’t. Actually, if you’re a liberated, free-flowing, unstructured- type artist-person, it probably is… but I discovered I’m not! My inner control-freak and I had a few battles with this one, but I finally found 2 examples I like.

These are my Sea Cabbages! Pure drawing ink on damp book pages.

Fractal Fly

And this one lent itself to a very abstract dragonfly. I blew on the ink blots through a straw… I also have a very weird alien eating blots, but that one needs work – or the bin! This was an ideal exercise for me considering I feel like I’ve been hit over the head with a flu-bat! Quite suddenly at lunchtime, I started to feel really full of cold and heady, in a thick, muzzy way, so I expect I am getting one of those annoying headcolds (again!). Maybe I’ll be lucky and it’ll be a 24-hour bug? Whatever happens, there’s a hot toddy on the menu tonight before bed!!

Posted by Rosie on January 11, 2010

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