Handmade, Organically-Formed, Inkblot Patterns.

It was the last week of Drawing II and my professor was pushing us for original concepts (as he had been all semester). We had all of our supplies and would always sit at table in a giant circle that all faced each other, so you quickly got used to being observed while creating. I had various objects from the thrift store sitting in front of me that I was going to turn into...well, something. One of the objects was an old photo album; inside of which I had found some cool photo negatives of strangers. I had thought of maybe painting a portrait of the strangers in those negatives, but painting directly onto the plastic pockets. It wasn't a bad idea, but I just wasn't in the mood to do portraits. I looked at the clock on the wall and realize I've got to start doing something with my time. I squirted out some black watercolor concentrate and just started making symmetrical inkblots with the black paint and the paper. 

Fast forward to almost the end of class. I'd been tinkering around with my objects, basically "pretending to work" to pass the time, and it was FINALLY time to clean up. I grabbed a torn piece of paper and realized it was sticking to the plastic sleeve in my photo album so I carefully pulled it off. The paint was thick enough to cling to itself in certain areas and leave other areas of the sleeve completely untouched. Because of this, the result was a delicate pseudo-symmetrical pattern. You can bet the rest of my week and weekend was spent perfecting my materials and making more of these inkblots. I went to the thrift store again and happened to find an unopened box of transparency sheets (hard plastic sheets designed to be used with dry erase and a projector). I started acrylic and oil paints instead to further help the paint stick to itself and not bleed around. The products of that exploration changed my entire perspective on art. I searched google for inkblots and there was NOTHING even close to what I had produced, which was the most encouraging of all. I had just birthed something new.

"...the result was a delicate, pseudo-symmetrical pattern."

After falling in love with my first few inkblot productions, I decided to incorporate them into my personal branding. They perfectly combine the three sides to my personal art:

Detail: lots of fine lines and small, delicate details.

High-Contrast: I like colors and rainbows, but at the end of the day, I LOVE  the boldness of black & white.

Psychological Feel: I am obsessed with movies and studies that deal with the brain and how people interpret difference stimuli. I find the human brain to be a scary and  infinite thing of beauty.

You can NOW shop these patterns across a myriad of available products and decor items via RedBubble!