Beautiful Oops

Artist Statement

For this piece, we were tasked with creating something centered around or including an ink splatter. Taking from the concept "make something of your mistakes", this piece was a way to practice both our thought process and artistic extension. The materials that I used in this piece were fairly basic, as sticking with the already black ink blob on the piece, the only material that I used was black pen ink. I also actually cut down my original paper too, as I felt I didn't need that much canvas space.

When you brainstorming ideas for a piece like this, the main focus is to create something centered around the supposed 'mistake' on the page. In the beginning, I went through many sketch ideas, trying to find something I would both like and would fit with the ink blob on the paper. At one point I was considering making the ink blob a dancer, but after deciding against that and instead taking the tree root, I believe that was the only evolution that this piece made. Everything else in the piece was thought out.

Looking at this piece, you would first assume that there is a lot of symbolism in it; with all the mystic details and such. But in all honesty, I didn't really think of much when I was creating this piece. Pulling common themes that I myself enjoyed, they all just kinda fit together in the end; creating a piece that had a very ‘fantasy’ like vibe to it. Overall I like how this piece came out, especially considering that it was one of my first pieces of the year. Getting back into the role of art, I believe this assignment was a good start. But if I did decide to go back and revise this piece, I would probably try to add color (or just a pop of color) somewhere. Even though I do enjoy the simple black and white contrast, I believing adding color would bring a new sort of dimension to this piece.