Beautiful oops

Birds

ink and colored pen

4x4

This project is the beautiful oops project, where we are given a paper with random ink spots on it and then we must turn it into something. The ink spot I got looked like a birds neck to me and then there were some other random dots around it. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted it to be, at first I was thinking it looked like a badger of some kind but I couldn't really seem to get it to fit. After may times of drawing something and then erasing it and starting over I decided that I just needed to make a mark and go with it. So I made a mark, which lead me to turn my image into a flock of exotic birds.

I began my piece by drawing a random black line coming out of one of the ink spots and then elaborated on it to look like a bird, I turned the other ink spots into the heads of the birds and then extended the body of the bird down with black pen. Once I had the bodies completed I went in with a red marker to add the beaks. After I had the birds done I realized I needed to add something to the background, something to give the creature a space to exist in. So I used randomly colored pens to add some grass around them. Once I was doing this I realized that i just wasn't loving what was going on, So I began to turn it into an abstract image, I added some funky lines around the outside in other colored pens to get it a little more creative.

Overall I do not like what I came up with, I love this project and the idea behind the project but the thing I created was not my favorite. I think that during the creation of this image I was to focuses on completing it rather than creating something that I loved. If I were to do this project again I would take my time thinking of an idea and do it at a time when Im really feeling creative rather than when I have time but am not thinking about art.