Thursday 8th November - Pathways

In the morning, I did another drawing like the one I did for screen printing. I really love this technique, and the way the end drawing turns out, even though it is really tiring, and I sat there for 2 hours doing it!
After I had done this, I felt like everything had just come to a standstill. I had done a couple of these drawings, and I didnt't know what to do with them, or how to take them further.
I spoke to Jo and she gave me soooo many ideas! One of them was to try marbelling. I had never done this before, and was quite excited at the thought. First, we filled a rectangular tray with water, and dropped some marbelling ink into it. The drawing that I done in the morning was photocopied onto cartridge paper as normal copy paper is too thin in thickness and would go all soggy if it was wet. I then put the photocopied drawing on top of the water, and the ink just attached itself to the paper, and the wierd thing was, it didn't even get wet much as the inks were oil based. They were just floating around in the tray. I loved the effect it had over the drawing - the colours were almost all running into each other and clashing like a colour bomb had exploded.

However, I feel that with this effect, other than using it for a quick and easy way to make a colourful background, there isn't much else you can do with it. So, to ensure that I used up all the ink, I used it for doing lots of different colourful backgrounds, which can later be worked into.