Background tests-Kate

Here are some tests that I conducted using a variation of watercolour and ink on wet watercolour paper. Firstly I pre wet the watercolour paper so that the paint would soak and spread more easily as a dripped and washed it over the paper. I tried this technique both vertically and horizontally to get different movements in the paint. I found that having the paper vertically I was only able to get paint patterns that looked like drips, however when I had the paper on a horizontal surface I was able to drip and splash the paint more where I wanted it to go and also wash the paint over the surface. I also did an experiment by dripping the watercolour paint directly into a tray of water to see how the paint spread differently to see if I could get different patterns. I found that when I used ink instead of water colour I was able to get some really cool patterns but because the ink was black it wouldn't work well when other layers of the animation were put over top- I would like to try this again with coloured ink or possibly even food colouring.

I also speed the videos up after to get faster movement as well and play with the saturation.