Experimenting With Drips

Within this post I will be showing how I experimented with creating drips and how I can incorporate it within my work. All of the drips are created using a pva and ink mix but you could also use acrylic to gain a more opaque colour within the drips. you want these drips to be flexible and vibrant so there must be an elasticity to them allowing them to be warped easily. Also they need to be created onto a plastic base as this allows for them to be peeled away and put onto any surface that you want them to but if the plastic is textured then it will show within the drips, so for smooth drips you want a good pva base with strong colours and a smooth plastic sheet to pour them onto. 

Firstly you mix the pva and ink together inside of a old glue bottle or anything with a ability to squeeze it out of, but if you cat get any of those what I did also works which is to use a soft drinks bottle and drill a hole into the cap, the hole needs to be about a centimetre in diameter.  

Secondly you then squeeze this mix onto your plastic sheet before or whilst the top edge is attached to a wall, then whether you leave it hanging or lye it flat to dry once they have ran down the desired length is entirely up to the creators preference. 

 With this one I created the pattern that i wanted onto the plastic before i put it up onto the wall to begin dripping. I felt that this would allow for the drips to appear more expressive.

 After creating these I began experimenting with using these drips with my photography beginning with just using one colour of drips.

 Before I began experimenting with a multitude of coloured drips which I found added more contrast to the images and it allowed for the form of the drips were emphasised further.

 

 I found where the drips colours bleed and merge draws upon the form of the subject matter within the skylines. I found that the subtle contrasts within the hues allows for the bleed within them to appear more organic and free flowing.

 I also kept some of the drips onto the pockets but I also tried doing the drips onto acetate sheets where I found that the drips flowed more easily and the tones and colours bleed into one another more easily.

 I feel that these drips were an effective way to emphasise focal points within a piece so I think that they would be an effective addition to my textured bases to emphasise the elements over it.