Some work in progress

Hi everyone - how is your weekend going?

Today I have some photos for you of my pieces of work at the recent Mold II club meeting when we played with alcohol inks;

These two pieces are the alcohol ink on acetate & then blown with a straw. The one on the left I have shown before as it was one that I did when preparing for this.  The one on the right looks quite strange & is the piece that I used to show the ladies what to do, but I got asked questions like - can you marble through it with a cocktail stick - answer look at the scratches.  It might have worked better if the inks had not dried a little in the meantime.  Can you add more ink - yes. What happens if you add blending solution - the large circles. I am looking to see if I can draw on these pieces as create more interest - such as flowers etc.

These 2 pieces were made with the marbling technique

& this is the reverse side of those 2 pieces.

I love the randomness of this technique.

This was done with a larger piece of card (which only just fitted in my tub).  In other marbling techniques, once you have taken your first print you usually but not always, lift the remaining ink with scrap paper or fabric.  I didn't do that for the piece above - I just added some more inks.

This is the reverse side of that piece above.

I didn't want to waste what ink was left - so I dipped another piece of card & this was the result. Not too clear in the photo but there is some colour there.

This was the reverse side - it had picked up a few more of the yellow blobs.

Tomorrow I will show you my Northern Lights efforts.  In the meantime I will have a think about how I am going to use these pieces shown here.

'Bye for now.