Saturday 13 May 2017

sketchbook May 20017



More experimenting with Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer pencils which are water soluble. Alo using the Faber-Castell Polychromos range, white paint markers and black Pentel brush marker. Eyes seem to be my focus and faces are 'held back' with nets, veils or other structures.


I'm aware of concealing some of the initial images resulting in the faces peeping through, hidden, which is also reflected by the juxtaposition of the face on the page.


Occasionally I'll leave an image unaltered because it doesn't need anything else.



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Friday 5 May 2017

sketchbook April/May 20017


Started a new sketchbook in April, a small Winsor & Newton 4 1/2ins x 5 1/2ins, spiral bound. 170gsm paper.


I also picked up a box of watercolour crayons from Tiger. Didn't know how these were going to work as crayons are waxy but there was a certain amount of soluble colour mixed with them. So they could be used as crayons and also as watercolours with a bit of waxy texture added.




I left pencil lines from each loose sketch, colouring over the top. Another layer of crayons and water could be used once the previous layer had dried. I liked the texture that remained.


Used pentel brush pen in black over the surface of a few drawings and added some white acrylic paint pen.


The black can give a sinister feeling to the drawings.


A background of texture from layers of white acrylic made the watercolour washes from the crayons more visually interesting.



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