Quite literally, the paper marks were made from being the backing sheets of some rusting pages I was drying and the ink sludge was left over from some inking I was doing and left these gorgeous marks in the bottom of the tray.
One day I will blog what was made using rust and layers of ink - but for the moment, I think these marks speak for themselves.
Gorgeous marks! I'm finding that "drop cloths", with their unintended or layered marks, have a beauty of their own. Will the rusted and paper sludged backing sheets become art as well?
ReplyDeleteS-artists who play with ink, paper and rust seem to be the oddest of people - or so I have observed. However, I agree that some of the best designs are the ones we leave behind. Great fragments and certainly worthy of capturing and maybe also using creatively in a work. Go well. B
ReplyDeleteOh Susan...when I see images like this it makes me think we are all wasting our time! They are exquisite, and your eye for seeing them is well-trained! Scrumptious and divine...
ReplyDeleteOh, the excitement of these 'happy accidents'.. Wonderful to see.
ReplyDeleteI can empathise with these - it was always a mite dispiriting to see how lovely the images on the backs of printing plates turned out.
ReplyDeletestunning!
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your comments .......... of course it is going to be hard when I show some of my actual work, not the lovely happenstance of staining and left over dribbles, and the comments are less positive than for my ink sludge and papermarks! gorgeous, scrumptious, divine, stunning ....... how can one possibly be better than that. Truth is, often the uncontrived is so much more than the works we strive to achieve.
ReplyDeletesusan-it's finding and refinding that balance and knowing when/how to let the happenstance occur that is hard. i think that we have to just keep trying and to not get too precious about it all (this isn't easy)
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