Ink

Abraham Woodhull, a farmer in Setauket, played a highly important role in the group. Whenever information was dropped off at the designated dead drop, Woodhull would retrieve it and decide what information was to be sent off to General Washington (“American”). Since it was incredibly dangerous to successfully send information under the radar, Woodhull had to be absolutely sure that the information to be sent was of extreme importance. Woodhull, then, would drop the intelligence off at another…

down from parents with tattoos. Also, almost all of the inks used in tattoos are meant for printer’s ink or automobile paint. The metals and the inks most often cause swelling,…

meditative state. I pour some water into the ink stone and begin to grind an ink stick into the still liquid. The sea of the stone quickly turns a dark carbon black, as I begin to collect my thoughts. Inspiration strikes, and images of a beautiful cherry tree suddenly appear in my mind. Time stands still in this moment of peace and tranquility, the ink and my muscles are warm and ready from the grinding of the stone.…

out to me when looking at this painting, Mondrian said "The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must be eliminated from the picture." When I first look at this painting, I see splatters of ink. There seems to be an incident…

The colored ink newsprint, viewed without a microscope, seems to only consist of the colors green and blue. When using a microscope to observe the colored ink newsprint on a magnification of 40x or 100x, the color pink appears among the colors blue and green. The naked eye can view fewer colors than when using a microscope which enables…

words in their skin. However if we keep searching in the history of the world we can notice that in almost every century and country there were a different fashion of tattoos. For example in XIX you could go to the circus and found women covered in ink, in the 20's all the soldiers and marines got tattoos to remember their families and lovers, in almost all of the tribes of the amazon, Asia and what's more the most known, the soldiers of the Polynesia, who got tattoos even in their faces. We can…

Chinese painting has changed and evolved throughout Chinese history. An noticeable example is calligraphy. Calligraphy is a style of Chinese painting using fine penmanship and ink work. Originally calligraphy was once its art work alone. It wasn 't until later one the evolution of painting where you can see calligraphy used tied together with other styles and techniques of painting. Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Han Dynasty The Han…

The singularity of specific, mundane objects for this type of work is from influence of Philip Guston, who turned such unremarkable items into large pieces of art. When creating watercolor pieces, the focus on organic matter is important, as the ink creates a more solidified image of the vines and leaves in which can be overlooked when viewing the subject in real life. The color is picked based on what type of plant is being displayed as well as the atmosphere in which the plant exists within.…

the hips. This is the female equivelant to the Pe’a, except the designs are much smaller and only takes a few hours to complete. The tattoo is less filled in: it consists of small dots and dashes and simple geometric designs using not nearly as much ink. The actual “malu”, a small rhombus, is tattooed on the back of the knees. The meaning of the word malu has been lost over time, so no one is quite sure what it where the tattoo itself originated from or what it signifies. It was customary for…

trembling hands, into the extra suitcase. Withdrawing a book, I took out my favorite straw. I quickly ripped into the book, not worrying about the ink that spilled from my lips or the idea of one of my roommates walking in and seeing me. When I finished draining the book of all the appetizing ink, I threw the book back into the suitcase and wiped the dripping ink from my mouth. I…