Nature Botanicals & India Ink are a great way to trigger drawing skills, learn properties of India ink, and connect with nature in your neighborhood. The best way to stay on the creative path is to find easy, fun art projects to do each day. Step away from thinking planning mind and shift into doing creative play. See the video below!
First, get out and gather samples around your home. Go deeper into the small things, the ones often overlooked each day. Seek out the unusual, the geometric, the surprising shapes and forms that call to you.
Secondly, arrange your Nature Botanicals in a pleasing way. Consider flow, overlapping, and the white negative background formed as you lay the nature pieces in a pleasing way on your sketchpad or paper. Therefore, use marker paper or better with a sheet of waxed paper underneath for protection.
Thirdly, be brave and use many different tools from sticks to brushes to interpret each item. Each tool, how it’s held, pressure from your hand, movement of mark making, changes the result. Also, this a time to experiment and see what happens. Some you’ll love, other parts not so much.
Plus keep track of the love things so that you can apply it to your own art. India ink is permanent and waterproof once dry, allowing many layers to grow and fascinate as you create.
In addition, come to this with an attitude of curiosity to see what happens next. Pay attention to how you feel when you create in this intuitive observing way. Do you like it? Is this a good way to get started in your art journey when wondering what to do next? Let me know what you think here, at Pat Gullett Designs. Show us your art.
