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Gouache on Black Paper

February 12, 2017
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Week 6 - Reeves brand gouache from A.C. Moore on black sketch paper. I was inspired to try this technique when I watched a video demonstrating it on YouTube. I packed up my small traveling ArtBin that I take to work with all my tubes of Reeves gouache, metal paint palette, a few small brushes, pencils, pens, eraser, and collapsible water cup from Faber Castell. I also carried with me my backpack filled with the usual things and for this week, a small black paper sketch pad to use for the gouache paintings. 

I intended to work on the paintings on my lunch hour this week, but one of the days I spent fiddling around with the new set of magnetic adapters for my Slate, which is always in my work backpack.  Another day we all went out for lunch. I finally spent about two lunch hours working on just one painting that I was not really happy with when it was finished. That painting did inspire me though to create a revised illustration based on it with my iPad using the Procreate app.

One evening in my studio I painted a self portrait with white gouache going straight in with a brush without sketching myself first. I was happier with that result though it's not a complete likeness. Today I created two paintings, one from the art mannequin that I have and another from a silver Halloween skull from my anatomy collection. I liked the way the mannequin painting turned out, with the skull painting being more distorted and abstract.  

Kind of hit or miss with the gouache paintings this week, but not every sketch or painting is going to turn out to be a great work of art. I found the exercise challenging because I had to think about painting in the lights on the black paper, leaving the bare black paper as the shadows, opposite of the way I normally work. Although challenging, I enjoyed the exercise and may incorporate it into a future project.

Next up in Create-A-Thon 2017 - Paint or draw the same subject in 5 different mediums.

In Artwork, 2017 Create-A-Thon Tags 2017create_a_thon, Create-a-thon, sketch, Gouache, Black Paper, 2017 Creative Project, Painting
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Liquitex Ink!

February 5, 2017
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Week 5 - Liquitex Ink! in Vivid Lime Green, Red and the new muted colors of Pink, Turquoise, and Violet. I also have Transparent Raw Umber and Dioxazine Purple, which I didn't get a chance to make drawings with this week. I made all of the drawings with a Speedball nib holder and drawing pen nib on Canson XL recycled Bristol Paper. I really like the muted colors and will probably get the other two colors in the set. I think that I need to get a little more practice getting a consistent line with the drawing nib, but I kinda like the uneven quality of the lines in these drawings.

Next up in Create-A-Thon 2017, Reeves Gouache Paintings on Kraft and Black Papers.

In 2017 Create-A-Thon, Artwork Tags pen and ink, Liquitex Ink!, Ink drawings, Liquitex Ink! Muted Colors, drawings, create_a_thon2017, 2017 Creative Project, 2017create_a_thon, Steampunk, sketches
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Nicole Premieré Dual Tip Markers

January 23, 2017
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Week 3 - Premieré Dual Tip Markers by Nicole, A.C. Moore's house brand of alcohol markers similar to Copic markers. Brenda bought me a starter set of these markers for my birthday a year ago and I liked them well enough to purchase quite a few more throughout the past year when they would go on sale. I have an assortment of 50 colors, which have names like, Mango, Cabbage, and Grass. 

I had only used them once or twice up until this week simply because I was very much occupied with my film photography project in 2016 and had too many other art supplies to experiment with. I thought I would draw some dragons this week with the markers and spent the beginning of the week sketching out several ideas at lunch. I finally sat down with the markers on Saturday and started with Bienfang marker paper, but I found that the markers over saturated the paper. I made do with that drawing and started a new one today on Bristol paper. The color of the markers was very vibrant on this paper, but they didn't blend at all, forcing me to render the dragon in solid blocks of color. I like the way the drawing turned out though I will look for another paper to try, perhaps Copic marker paper. I've also tried drawing on Strathmore Visual Journal Watercolor paper which turned out pretty nice.

Next up in Create-A-Thon 2017 - value studies using Sakura Koi Gray Watercolor Brush Pens.

In 2017 Create-A-Thon, Artwork Tags Create-a-thon, 2017create_a_thon, ACMoore, Dragon, Premieré dual tip markers, create_a_thon2017, Nicole markers
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