After the silver-blue octagons, I made various experimental pieces using blue/red ink and varnishes. The results were pretty meh:
While the photo (as ever) does it little justice, the idea also of patterns underneath (in this case, red blobs) and blue layers on top (with varnish) … well it doesn’t look very interesting.
As a slightly more interesting example, I thought of the idea of a dark cave with stalactite/stalagmites would look good. The dark blue that results from the red underneath (straight onto the page) combined with lighter shades from just blue over varnish - well it looked like:
I mean, it’s okaaay but not sure that it’s much different from just using different values of ink. Maybe the only value here would be to have a ‘shifted’ red layer underneath the blue layer. A bit like screen printing I suppose. Not sure if it’s any use, really.
Well, well, well.