My art buddy, Dan, and I haven’t been able to get together to make art for the last 6 months. Bummerville. But we finally made it happen! This time around we worked on our own creative endeavors and plan to make collaborative art soon.
Dan had a cool Japanese Ink set that he pulled out for me to play with. The set comes with a grinding stone and five compressed ink sticks.
To bring the ink out, you pool a small amount of water on the stone and then methodically and gently grind the stick to create a mud like consistency (takes about 10 minutes of grinding). The sticks are vibrant colors and I found that after you grind them for awhile the stick softened so I could mark with it and transfer the color. However, the ink pool it made was nothing like the stick color! I gathered we were doing something wrong. Either way, they were interesting materials to play with.
I made meditative ink on ink drawings with the swatch from the stick on the side:
To finish I made a small triptych:
I was inspired to do squirrel-y drawing because of what Dan was working on. It was fun and I am happy with how these turned out. Can’t wait to see what out next art date holds.
A Good Cunt 
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