It started with a drip
I've made a lot of drawings recently using black drawing ink, today I decided to mix things up a little bit and introduce some colour, but just a little. It started with a bottle of red ink and a crisp white piece of paper- the perfect surface to drip some ink down.
After the red ink had run down the paper I introduced a couple of drops of black ink to the wet surface of the red, propping the paper against a bottle of ink I allowed gravity to do the rest of the work.
Once the ink had dried I got out my trusty dip pen and drawing inks. I took a few moments to look at the inky marks - what could they become? I began drawing a simple cityscape next to the red ink line, the red ink had become a river, and the black ink was the polluted water.
The final addition was to add a little house, sitting downstream of the city and the polluted river.
I wonder who lives there.
'House on the River' -ink on paper