Drip Drop "Art"

For the last 3 or 4 months I have kept a huge Ikea frame hidden behind our dining room table. I kept meaning to buy a piece of art so that I could hang it above the TV, but procrastination prevailed. I never found anything meaningful or affordable enough and then I kinda forgot we even had the frame. Out of sight out of mind.

Then I saw this post over at the 700 experience and thought maybe I could put my own spin on it. I had seen something similar a while ago here, and it was doing major rounds on Pinterest, but to be honest it looked like hard work and that it would create a right mess.

Suddenly, I had a brief genius moment!

I decided I would be super lazy creative and try it with watercolour.

I started in a rather organised manner. I sketched out perimeters and marked even spaced circles where I would start my "drippings", before filling in the blanks when they were dry (as I didn't want the colours to bleed and read as muddy).

I carried on this way for quite sometime and before I knew it I was two hours in and it still looked like this:

At this point my boyfriend raised his eyebrows and said "I don't get art", which loosely translates to "That looks like ----".

Still, I soldiered on, becoming more temerarious with the brush as time went on, until finally it began to look like this:

Several hours, two water bowl changes and fight with the aforementioned Ikea frame later, I was finally done. (FYI, the frame won - I ended up ever so slightly breaking it.)

I hung it landscape, cuz I'm capricious like that.

Although it took much longer to complete than expected, I'm happy enough with the result to leave it be until I find something better to replace it.