Recently I've been watching a lot of vidoes about making flower pictures using acrylic string pull technique. Like this one, isn't it beautiful?
最近在YouTube看了不少繩子拉花的影片，像這樣的作品很美。
Today I had some black ink left over after I finished practicing calligraphy, so thought I'd give it a go. I didn't have all the right kit at home but figured I'd improvise with whatever is available. Coarse string and plain white A4 paper. I dipped the string in the dish of ink and let it soak for a while to absorb the ink.
今天練完書法還有墨汁剩，就地取材試學人家玩繩子拉花。我把繩子浸在墨汁裡，然後小心翼翼鋪在白紙上。 繩子較粗，白紙又小，所以擺的線條比較拘謹。我把另一張白紙和雜誌蓋上去，用手壓著然後慢慢把繩子往下拉。很緊張，不知我的第一張作品如何呢？
Then I randomly placed the string onto the paper, and added a bit more ink directly onto the string (mistake 1). It was a bit difficult to get some nice curves as the string was quite thick and not very flexible. This is what I managed.
Now for the pull. I folded the paper over, placed an old magazine on top and pressed hard (mistake 2). Slowly I pulled the string downwards releasing the pressure occasionally to let the string move. Viola! This is what it looked like when I removed the magazine. See the outline and the streaks, it's a bit like the photos I saw on the internet. It looks promising so far. Let's see what my pull string flower looks like inside.
Errrhhhh... where's my flower??!! What happened?? It's not what I expected!! Seems like I put too much ink and pressure on the string so I ended up with a blob of .... I'm not sure what it is.
噢！我的花兒在哪? 這是甚麼？幹嘛會變成.... 我也不知是甚麼。慘呢！ 我第一張作品徹底失敗。
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