Serendipity

"Chance"

Definitions: The art of finding something by looking for something else, or making a desirable discovery by chance/accident - "a happy accident"

hWe used the philosophy of Serendipity through using inks.

Although you can manipulate ink, to some extent it is still uncontrollable, therefore you don't have full control over the outcome and have to work with what you have.

Here are some of my practice ink manipulations:

This was my first ink manipulation practice. I found the inks incredibly hard to control. They would run where ever they please, with me having very little say in the outcome. I do like this piece alot though. I like how all of the colours blend well. Up in the top left-hand corner it a blue dark spot that smudes out. This is an aspect I particularly like. I also like the sort-of-rhizomes that have been created in blue at the bottom of the page.

This was my second practice with the inks. The technique I used involved immersing the paper in water, letting it drain off, and then dropping the different colours of ink at the bottom of the page. I then picked the paper up and let the inks run, creating the rhizomes. I like this ink piece as all of the colours blend, and I also like the fact that the rhizomes connect.

This is my third ink practice. For this piece i sprayed the paper with water using a spray bottle and then dropped the ink into the applied water. I then spread the ink using a straw. I did this first with the blue and found it hard and not very effective, only creating short rhizomes. I then tried again with the pink and yellow and found it more successful, creating long, continuous rhizomes.

This was my fourth ink practice. To create the look of the inks in the piece I sprayed the paper with water using a spray bottle. I then, slightly tilted the paper, letting the inks run that little bit. I like this piece because the inks didn't run all of the way of the page, and I like the look it created. I also gained further knowledge on how to control the inks, shown by the short rhizomes.

This is my fifth ink practice. This is probably one of my favourite piece's. I love the effect that the technique I used created. To achieve this I sprayed the paper with water using a spray bottle and then dropped the inks into the water. I then spread the ink in the splattered effect by further spraying the inks with water from the spray bottle. I aslo liked the way that this technique blended the colours together well. I also felt that this technique gave me a tiny bit more control over the outcome.