LOVELY BLOOD FLOW
Experimental art project with bovine blood mixed with water, sea salt and indian ink.
Technique: Painting on paper & canvas + Photography & digital edit, (2017-2018)
Technique: Painting on paper & canvas + Photography & digital edit, (2017-2018)
What is interesting to me about working with blood, is mainly the structure. It is fascinating to watch how the blood moves on a different surface and how the richness of the colour and structure changes during the process. The colour is rich dark red, when the blood is wet, but it gets more brownish tone after it gets completely dry. Of course the amount of water I'll use and other things affect on how dark or light the red is going to be. To me the process itself is more important than the actual result. Some of these images are the whole painting and some are just details from a larger painting. Searching for the interesting details is certainly part of the fun. You need to look and see to be able to discover the art. One painting can contain many wonderful surprises in it, if you just use a little bit of your imagination and look at the painting carefully. Click the pictures to make them open larger!
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