Blot, Blot, Blot

I’ve gotten back into making more inkblots, but this time on a larger scale. I feel like after working on something as detailed and time consuming as Yemoja, I needed to free myself up with something that is more spontaneous and less planned. Besides that, I hadn’t really a chance to work on them as much as I wanted to and there’s so many angles that I want to explore. Because the possibilities really are endless, I often find myself staring at the collection that I’ve amassed, trying to figure how I want to present them.

As I just mentioned, I decided to go bigger in scale. It seems like everyone is getting back into large scale paintings and I think that making the inkblots larger makes them more mesmerizing. It’s so easy to get sucked into the bright colors and watching the ink spread all over the page. Right now, I’m especially found of magenta and red and orange combinations, as well as blue, turquoise and green. In some cases, there has been a little too much spread and I’ve been frantically scrubbing ink droplets out of my carpet in my studio (time to break out the old beat-up towels that I amassed from the gym).

This time I also decided to use a paintbrush to help move the ink around a little more and add a little direction to the works so it doesn’t just look like I randomly threw colored ink on some paper and has some type of coherent movement. So far,  I have been really trying to duplicate that tree blot that I did a while back but I keep forgetting how I exactly put the ink droplets down, so until I do, I just keep making more and more blots that end up turning into something else that is mysterious, surprising and beautiful. I have so many that I’m beginning to think that one day those people that host those shows about hoarders are going to knock on my door to find my apartment filled from floor to ceiling with inkblots and there I’ll be, sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth, covered in purple, blue, and red ink, mumbling something about trees, shadows and faces.

Anyway, I will continue making them and sharing them.They’re such  wonderful celebration of the warmer weather and freedom.