"Watching paint dry" • Alcohol ink art a la @SeekingPlumb.
So in another conversation, I mentioned that something I really enjoy doing is watching paint dry. At least that's what I call the kind of art that I do. But it's not paint. It's actually a kind of ink. And several questions came up, so I thought I would address them here first. Many inks have a base of different kinds. Some are water based, some are alcohol based, and some are a number of other things
Gary Brown
@garyplaysbone · 0:56
And I mentioned before in the previous chat where you introduced this topic that it's like a roar shark kind of ink blots that evoke probably different ideas or different emotions or different impressions of. What does this remind me of? People in different poses or faces. Yeah, really cool stuff. Really cool stuff
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 1:02
Plum. This is amazing. This is so amazing. I absolutely love it. And I love the process. I'm big on process, and there's so much about it. I enjoyed you taking me through that process, really. And the feeling of that, your process and you taking me through it, aligning with where I'm waverly going. Yeah. And so I absolutely am going to try this. I'm going to go down the rabbit hole
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Thank you both for your questions and even your interest. I neglected to mention that I included a link to a sped up demo of the process in action. And Shawna, if you decide to dig into this, I would love to see the exploration and your journey on some of this. If you're willing to share, and even if it's not on your swellcast, if it's underneath another topic elsewhere or whatever, I would love to see
By the way, what is the story behind the photo you've attached
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 3:53
Some of them's got hats on. But here's a beautiful story. I had an artist, a muralist, and his wife. They're both muralists. They do the big, bad murals, like, just big walls, and they have three beautiful children. And the children came over and they painted. I didn't know what to do with them, so I took them to the castle and I said, here, let's do this. So they painted some and left them
What I also love about it is it's not simply a form of stimming. You share it with other people, and you share it with those messages. And I think that's a part of it that I really, really appreciate. Not just the abandoned art of it, but that there's also a message there, especially in today's age, there's so much hate going around
Shawna Kearsley
@OnAcornBay · 4:19
They had a fire during the height of last season, I think, and that was a thing. They were brand new owners and had a fire. So now they're open again, and it seems that folks are happy about it. Anyway, I'm off to the 70% discount shop. Michael's and I am going to not over consume. I am going to pick one thing, right?
And I wish you the same kind of enjoyment as you are, as you're playing, as you're experimenting. So I wish you much fun