"Light Rain" is the latest slideshow in the alcohol ink drip playing series. I am hoping to move back to just the painting (without the photographs) in future slideshows. This run of trees and foliage has been delightful fun though.

1. Light Rain
A beginner’s play in alcohol inks,
alcohol markers, watercolor, acrylics,
and whatnot,
(non)synthetic papers,
light compositing,
and digital image editing… Shalin Hai-Jew
Dec. 2021

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Rate of Fall

3. 3
False Spring

4. 4
Cliffside

5. 5
Hot Lens

6. 6
Moonrise Circuitry
(pixel art)

7. 7
Portents or Rain

8. 8
Pine at Night

9. Light Rain
• “Light Rain” is the most current slideshow in the alcohol ink drip
playing series. These works are a salve in a time of mass stress during
a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic.
• This is a test of human systems, science ones, medical ones, political ones,
economic ones, and many others.
• For each of us, it is our lot to endure as we enter Y3 of this pandemic.
• Writing and alcohol ink drip playing are both works of creativity, of
exploration, of putting order to a runaway world.
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10. • These works, as in the prior slideshow, include some light
compositing.
• The photos used are new ones based on the usual walk to and from work. (In
the walk, I was both “form” and “texture” hunting. I am seeing both the thing
and the possibilities. I so wanted an image of a dead tree on a family’s lawn,
but I suddenly noticed their lights were on inside, so I forwent that image. I
plan to maybe try again.)
• The integrated alcohol ink artworks are selected ones from prior times and
some new ones. The digitalization continues to be used for salvaging what is
inartful but also in striving towards something more artful. In many of these
works, the alcohol ink works are relegated to the backgrounds.
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11. Light Rain(cont.)
• These works are sensory more than cognition (as compared to my
professional work which is often more cognition than sensory).
• There is something appealing about the artifice, the illusions. (What did
Voltaire say of first pleasures?)
• At least one of the works here shows a “pilling” or “beading” effect of
watercolor on synthetic paper.
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12. On black synth paper
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13. 13
Night Watch

14. On white synth paper
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15. 15
Light Rain
(watercolor and
alcohol ink on
synthetic paper)

16. 16
Sunrise

17. 17
Around and Through

18. 18
Sunny Outlook

19. On digital variants
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20. 20
Into Unknown

21. 21
Wet Leaves

22. 22
Birch

23. 23
Fall Colors

24. 24
Frog

25. 25
Winter Sun

26. 26
Going Alone

27. 27
Light Rain
(digital paint daubs)

28. 28
Barren Scape

29. 29
Last Hanging Pear
at Daybreak

30. 30
Cool Reception

31. 31
Reading Influence

32. 32
Tree as in Blood
(after Le Carré,
Our Game, 1995)

33. 33
Entanglements

34. 34
Web

35. 35
Blossoming Peach

36. 36
Light Heart

37. 37
Flat Night

38. 38
Light Rain
(stylized)

39. 39
Sea Change

40. 40
Watching Dry

41. 41
Contrails

42. 42
Sun Moon Stars

43. 43
Starry Night

44. 44
Overhang