Exercise: Exploring drawing and painting

This exploration could go on forever!

Here are my favourites:

Apliquéd

Charcoal and acrylic wash on canvas with crackle glaze and chalk over the icing

Lino cut printed with white emulsion over red acrylic and red guache. The guache dissolved into the white paint giving a nice pink effect

which was also left on the lino, an interesting image in itself

Bitumen stain on watercolour paper applied with a dip pen and brush, splattered and smeared. Coloured with watercolour, felt tip, chalk, pastel and guache.

I applied crackle glaze over the middle row and coloured the cracks with chalk and bitumen stain.

Silver ink applied with a dip pen on black paper.

Unfortunately the metallic quality of the ink doesn't scan.

Red ink applied to sheet music with a dip pen and covered with pink chalk, which I then smeared with a wet finger.

This gave a nice frosted effect, although I don't like the page overall as it lacks coherence.

Red marker pen and white painter pen, applied in stippled layers onto silver paper.

This was rather beautiful in the 'flesh', the white painter pen giving a good icing effect but sadly the metal paper doesn't scan.

Red and black ink applied with a dip pen and splattered onto newspaper.

Unfortunately the paper was too thin to handle the wetness of the ink and so crinkled.

The newspaper article was about the death of sugar cane workers so the cake image seemed quite apt.

I experimented with gas canisters before the cake exercise; mixing different colouring media with black ink applied with a dip pen.

My favourites were the felt tip and water based pastel as the flow well when water is applied over them.

Watercolour paint doesn't work over water based ink as the whole thing gets muddy.

Overall I learnt that the weight of paper is really important when choosing the materials to apply to it and that metallic finishes don't scan.