Wednesday, February 8, 2012

More Ink Doodles

I'm enchanted by ink doodling.  It's so much fun to put down some ink and let it start an abstract painting.  Here are the latest pages in my art journal, which I started by gluing down pieces of miscellaneous patterned papers, including music, handwriting, security envelope innards, and old magazine pages.  Then I blended them with a thin coat of titanium white acrylic.  When it dried, I started the painting by dripping black ink on both pages at once and then tilting the book this way and that until a nice pattern emerged.  Then it was time to add some color with fluid acrylics and distress inks.   Fun!!