creative marks

For this creative works piece I was really excited but then when the project actually came I thought "What the heck am I going to do?" With me trying to prepare for an important conference and go back and forth with my classes I kind of was all over the place. My first attempt was an idea I thought would work perfectly. I mixed paint and water in a perfume bottle and sprayed my paper so that the actual mist would be the creative mark, but that was a bust. This project was challenging to me because I'm not an abstract person nor do I care for it, so I felt as if my heart wasn't in this in the beginning. I kept trying different things wondering if they;d make some cool marks but I just was lost. It got frustrating. But i'm kind of a science nerd so I wanted to construct something simple that would actually work with gravity/ momentum to get the creative mark.

 I then made a little contraption that would rotate the piece of paper balancing on a Styrofoam ball and candle holder. At first I had a nail pushed in the middle of the Styrofoam ball and the center of the paper and had it rotate. I would drop paint and ink in the middle and spin the paper so the ink made a vein like effect. This got very messy. For my other attempt that I used on the final piece was that I didn't use a nail but i just rotated the paper and place my paintbrush anywhere and didn't look as i did it i would spin the paper 3 times and then switch paint colors. I added ink after I felt there was enough colors. Overall I think it was interesting and if I didn't go out of town or had spring break right after I think i could have put more time in the piece.