I used to be having a minor meltdown the opposite day, and regarded by way of some notes I had written to myself just lately. I vaguely remembered making notes on What To Do in a meltdown. I discovered this be aware:
One thing about making marks with crayons to see
what emerges. Making marks all day on a stack or a roll of low-cost drawing paper.
Mining no matter is in there, the unconscious, the hand and eye, or the hand
with out the attention.
So I received out my crayons (Caran d’Ache NeoColor II) and began scribbling furiously over marks I had made with paint. Layering the crayon marks and fewer frantic traces in paint drew me again into the method.
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| 18″x24″, acrylic and crayon on paper |
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| 18″x24″, acrylic, graphite, and crayon on paper |
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| 18″x24″, acrylic, graphite, and crayon on paper |
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| 18″x24″, acrylic, graphite, and crayon on paper |
After all, the Caran d’Ache crayons are water soluble, to allow them to smear whenever you paint over them. My trick is to use a GENTLE coat of matte medium or matte acrylic gel to the crayon marks, CONTROL the smear, and let it dry fully earlier than portray over. For graphite scribbling I like Lyra non-water-soluble graphite crayons. I additionally use unusual pencils. You may add coloured pencils and paint markers to this scribbling device field. Keep away from Sharpie Everlasting Markers (they may bleed by way of subsequent layers of paint), and oil pastels (until they’re the final layer – they won’t adhere to subsequent layers of acrylic paint). DO discover chalk pastels, charcoal (use fixative, open air, between layers), and varied sorts of brushes along with your acrylic paint. Golden Excessive Circulate acrylics and be enjoyable to scribble with too, particularly opaque ones. You may combine Titanium White Excessive Circulate into different colours to make them extra opaque and lighten the worth. Let every layer dry earlier than including extra marks when utilizing moist media. Work on a number of at one time.
Listed below are just a few examples of final week’s scribbles:
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| Black Excessive Circulate Paint utilized with a brush. Spray paint on the left (black) |
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| Black spray paint, turquoise crayon |
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| Paint scribbles utilized with brush and palette knife |
This appears like Scribbles Half 2. You may see a few of my 2021 scribbles on this web page, together with some stripes and florals. One of many many themes or explorations I appear to circle again to is that this layering of marks. Nice option to loosen up, and much there to find.