Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Cottage Studio 1/9/2024

Shibui Found Image Art can be beautifully simple. With this Shibui it is following the edges and enhancing the watercolor on the foundations. The whole thing becomes the event. It is totally abstract and it is easy to fall into the trance like creative process as you follow the edges of what it there. As you see I did not follow all edges allowing there to be texture. There is not much dimensionality, and that is ok. I use 05 and 005 Micron Pens. A word about the pens. Sometimes the pens stop working well, the inks flow stops or starts to fade. This could be due to the pen itself or the rag or pigment of the paper has affected to ball in the end of the pen. It can be unclogged by running it over another paper.

If you try to recapture your line: This is not so easy to put the point exactly where it needs to be. It creates a difficult line that is no longer fluid. This is where designing comes into play. I discovered I could “fatten” the line. After my discovery to have the fattened line not become a beacon in the work, I repeated it on purpose treating it as I did color by allowing those fatten lines for example to become “points on a road map” for the viewer to follow. The black lines to me are magical! My creative process now was to incorporate what I felt was design. I had been influences by art deco/ Alphonse Mucha and Japanese prints.

Best wishes! Pejj