This exercise involved creating a scrapbook of different types of paper/ surface and using a selection of non traditional mediums to draw an item of choice. I gathered various papers including a paper bag, tissue, some magazine written articles, handmade paper, sugar paper, cheap printer paper and some paper towel.
I couldn't make up my mind what to illustrate so did some of an icecream sundae and a cherry cake.
I tried drawing the item in different ways at different views with kids crayons, felt tips, oil crayons,
food colouring dyes and experimented with splatter techniques, cross hatching and stippling.
I really enjoyed this exercise and was suprised with some of the effects and will defintely use these in the future. My thoughts on each are below.
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| Pastel paper - paints dry brush work - quite liked the effect |
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| Paper towel with ink and crayon - splothes from my workings |
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| Crayon on pastel paper |
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| Oil pastels - messy to work with on black shopping bag - liked the effect on black |
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| Pastel paper - felt tips and white crayon - think it worked well combining the too mediums |
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| felt tips added water just made page wet! |
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Felt tips cross hatching on magazine article
liked working over text interesting idea to try more in future |
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| crayon |
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| Food dye on printer paper |
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| Food dye printer paper - imprinted from image above - I then let the ink run and spread it out |
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| Splattering paint technique by flicking onto typed article |
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| Felt tip on paper bag |
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| Ballpoint on tissue - didn't work great |
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| Pen on handmade paper |
Key learning points
- I really enjoyed experimenting and think I'd like to try incorporate some of these techniques into more convential mediums.
- I liked the effect of the food dyes when it ran and think this could maybe be achieved with watercolours or other medium to create a backdrop for illustrations.
- combining the felt pens and crayon worked well and I think working over text worked well
- there would be loads more opportunities to work with these images in and with photoshop.
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