A few weeks ago, I started 3 new series of very small works on paper. The first series I’m calling “Fraccidental Paintings.” Well, they’re not really the first in this series, because I did about 4 of these in 2011.
I’m using watercolor and inks and a variety of other media on very wet paper, and the inks do really cool fractally things when they hit the paper (hence the title of the series).
Working this way is kind of like when I worked in encaustic: there are some things I have control over and some things I don’t. I should buy a video camera, so I can shoot this process; it’s really cool the way the pigments in the various media interact, and I especially like watching that moment when the ink overcomes a certain resistance and suddenly floods into the wetness of the paper. 🙂