Moving back onto the water section now... and back to the use of the unusual materials of bleach, ink and wax. I started by drawing out jellyfish shapes onto the page and rubbing over them with a white wax candle to use it as a resist against the ink, followed by covering the whole page with blue Quink ink. Below is a photo of how it looked at this stage. It was difficult to see where on the page I'd put the wax as it's the same colour as the paper so I missed some areas, meaning some of the jellyfish had blue areas when they should have been white all over.
I painted out the blue areas within the jellyfish with bleach and then also used the bleach to add in more tentacles for the jellyfish and to add some detail to the background. As the bleach soaks into the page it creates an almost luminescent effect, which I feel is relevant for the jellyfish.
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| Before the bleach soaked in |
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| Final outcome |
I'm pleased with this piece of work and like its abstract nature as it's different in style from a lot of my other pieces of artwork.
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