"Deluge" is the latest in the "alcohol ink drip playing" series, created to cope starting in the second year of the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic. This work includes one that uses one watercolor pencil...

1. Deluge
A beginner’s play in alcohol inks,
watercolor,
synthetic papers,
and digital image editing…
Shalin Hai-Jew
August 2021

2. 2
Seeding

3. 3
Again

4. 4
Half Glass Heart

5. 5
Coding Hand

6. 6
Torsion

7. 7
Misdirection

8. 8
Moonrise

9. 9
Culture

10. Deluge
• “Deluge” is the most recent of the alcohol ink drip playing series as a
calming and play-filled activity in a time of high-disruption during a
pandemic. These included works are of digital scans of the various
“common art” works and then digital variants from these (as a way to
salvage inartful works).
• These works provide a creative outlet, to better aid decision making and to
live a bio-safer life by avoiding larger social gatherings and other
entertainment activities like theatres.
• Given the primacy of work, these also enable ways to acquire new digital
image editing skills on AP 2021 and AI 2021.
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11. Deluge (cont.)
• So much of digitizing various artworks “denatures” the original and
often involves a false physics, artifice, and illusion. These words are
not meant in a judgmental sense, but more a descriptive. Our
attention is drawn to the unusual and the novel.
• If a visual does not initially make me gasp, it won’t make it into the slideshows
(except for the occasional work person-like analog work that seeds a cool
digital version).
• I am trying to transmit excitement, not boredom.
• I am finally understanding blends and gradients. I am seeing where gradients
draw from the nature of the world’s light and color.
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12. Deluge (cont.)
• I have some new watercolor pencils that I hope to learn to use
effectively. I used one in one of these works (just to see how the
pigment would behave).
• After a time, I’ve learned that the flaws and the accidental effects are
where a lot of the power in the various visuals come from. Control is
not all it’s cracked up to be. Strangeness has its appeal.
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13. On white synth paper
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14. 14
Calm

15. 15
Resting State

16. 16
Midmorning

17. 17
Distant

18. 18
Water’s Edge

19. 19
Shadowed Sun

20. 20
Hopes

21. 21
Leafing

22. 22
Thriving

23. 23
Loam

24. 24
Abundance

25. 25
Black Rain

26. On translucent synth paper
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27. 27
Waking Breath

28. On digital variants
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29. 29
Waterway

30. 30
Sweetener

31. 31
Motion

32. 32
Fragrance

33. 33
Falling Razors

34. 34
Plant

35. 35
Performance Coin

36. 36
Sluice

37. 37
Sprinkles

38. 38
Possibilities

39. 39
Sweet Season

40. 40
Flirt

41. 41
Fingerprints

42. 42
Secrets in Three Parts

43. 43
Surges

44. 44
Motion City

45. 45
Chrome Detailing

46. 46
Darkening Waters

47. 47
Compression

48. 48
Flying Insect

49. 49
Sumi-e Camo

50. 50
Under Magnification

51. 51
Bio Sample

52. 52
Portent

53. 53
Hot Path

54. 54
Night Approach

55. 55
Sticky Water

56. 56
Shatter (diptych)

57. 57
Structure

58. 58
Sky Writing

59. 59
Threads

60. 60
Hidden Cabin

61. 61
Water’s Edge
(chalk & charcoal)

62. 62
Ashore

63. 63
Personal History

64. 64
Entangled

65. 65
Glass

66. 66
Silkworm

67. 67
Data