Art class at work

Sometimes at work we have some art classes arranged by the employee association. This one that I just participated in was about learning to use different kinds of ink, and how you could play with them. The hard part is seeing something in the splatters you make and bringing it out in your picture. What we did was putting a few drops of ink on the paper, then turning the paper up, down and side to side in order to get the ink to spread. You can also make some areas of the paper a little wet before adding the ink in order to get some other effects. Then you let the ink dry for a little bit and then wash it off. After the paper has dried you can then continue with a new color and so on.

I missed the first session, and we didn't play with colors every time, so for these I used some extra papers the teacher had. I'm not so happy with these, because I'm not so crazy about the colors, but it was fun to see if I could spot something in the splatters.

As you can see, I have tried to draw around what I saw and on some of them I have added extra color to highlight it, and in the tree I drew a few birds.

But I was also very lucky and made 2 very nice pictures that I might actually hang on my walls here at home:

The seal just appeared by itself, all I did was draw around the body and the eye and add the two white spots in the eye, to make it look alive.

On the picture with the flowers I tried to control the colors and which way they ran, and I think I did a pretty good job with that. This is by far my best picture, and it was also the last on I made in the class. I would have made more like this if I had had more time. I don't think it'll be something that I'll be doing at home since it is very messy.