Practice makes… well, it’s practice.
I dug up an old bottle of Rotring drawing ink, only to find out the pigment particles had already separated from the liquid. No such thing as suspended animation for this guy.
Drawn with expired India ink
I drew this with the nozzle. I used a Speedball dip pen to mop up excess non-ink and direct it into lines. The paper didn’t like expired ink at all. It’s already disintegrated in places.
May your life be full of purpose even if you don't know it yet
I used my Waterman 12 with the artist nib, for all the lines, then went over them with watercolor.
Washed out
This one is incomplete, I have just decided. So you’ll see it again soon.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:55 pm
I enjoy seeing you stretch like this. I especially like the second work since I’m a big fan of your combination of calligraphy and other media.
January 4th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Same here!
Even the first one though; has a certain quality of surrealism to it; if only you could control/expect what an expired ink would be up to…
Gives it a “descent into madness” feel while the ink destroys itself.
January 6th, 2010 at 7:40 am
I quite like that incomplete one as it is. Has a sort of haunting beauty to it.