Design Media: Dripping Ink

Video Transcript

"We're going to try playing around with ink a little bit, if you have some around the house. Inks do come in colors, by the way. I mostly do my demonstrating with black ink, they do come in colors. Like water color, they do respond to water. I'm just going to wet this surface and let it dry, just a little bit, while I show you something else on the other side, because that needs to be damp but not wet, wet. One thing you can do, actually, is do some drips on the bottom of your page, make them good big drips. Then you're going to hold the page away from you and blow. I blew into the water and then you can what ink will do in the water. I'm also going to try this, that's still a little too damp for what I want to do. I'm going to try this on the Yupo paper. This is a watercolor paper so it has tooth and the water tends to sink into it. It will stay on the surface because it is a plastic surface. We're going to try the blowing on a plastic surface and see how that works because that won't run into any of those hills and valleys. This takes a little work. I think you could work with this though. If you're thinking about trees, Mangrove swamps comes to mind for some reason, I'm not quite sure why. It's surely is a fun way to make something vertical. Then, sort of play around with which way you move it. I think you can start to see that you might be able to have some fun with this."