Cricketts Inky Art Blot

I have had an acrylic painting kicking around the studio since last summer. It was not good enough to put up for sale, but I liked some aspects too much to throw out. The image was that of a peacock that we had chase us one windy and rainy evening in Victoria, Canada. The peacock was in a park called Beacon Hill Park and we had decided to take a walk through the park and have a little picnic. Before we finished eating, the heavens opened and we raced under a large cedar to shelter. We foolishly started throwing a few crumbs out to the peacocks that had joined us under the shelter, not realizing that they were practically killer birds. I swear that the ham sandwich just enraged their thirst for our blood. Thankfully, we made it out of the park with most of our children and only minor blood shed. I added a faint barometer to the image with the French words for wind/rain and soften the image as one might see an image slightly blured through looking through rain. I just added this i...

I finished my transparent yellow layer for the green peacock edition, then moved on to make a smaller edition of blue peacocks will there was still enough of the block to print. For this blue edition, I made a prussian blue and mostly scarlet blend to hopefully add the same level of dimension that I had in the green edition. It is hard to see here, but the red really pops over the under layer of blue. Using the Prussian blue in the blend helped me keep a good contrast to the background, which was the opposite effect to the green peacock edition.