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It's been a hugely busy month, and I'm trying to keep up with everything. So here's another little glimpse at what I've been doing at college ... loads of experimenting in my sketchbook. Here are a few pages where I'm playing around with watercolour and masking tape, working on different ways of perceiving self-identity, for my neuroscience project:
Striving for a loose, fragmented background to reflect the loss of memory and lack of self-identity experienced in the short story/case study that I've decided to illustrate. Still a long way to go, I'm afraid. But it's a great feeling just trying out different ways of expressing disconnections.
Meanwhile we've begun learning to print on textiles and I'm having a wonderful time mark-making and printing onto calico ... I started off tentatively, using fabric inks and oil pastels:
After which I got into the swing of things and enjoyed myself:
Everything I'm doing recently is just so different from anything I've done before that I love it. Not that it's either better or worse, it's a learning process and that's exactly what I needed to do, learn and add some depth to my own creative perception. It feels absolutely right.
Wishing you a wonderfully creative week. Cheers.
Masking fluid is just one of those funky artist products I like to use. However, (I think) the outcome can sometimes be unpredictable. If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, in a nutshell, masking fluid is a "liquid tape" that you brush on your artwork in areas you don't want painted.
Here is an example of what it I'm talking about. You can tell in some cases I'm not a perfectionist because I just slopped the mask all over the place. The white part is a flower stencil that I put masking fluid on. When it's dry it will feel like rubber and you can just rub it off. I use my finger or you can use a rubber cement pick-up (mine is the Pro Art brand).
Ok, here is the tricky part. I use a lot of vintage book, music and dictionary pages in my work. I hate to say the word "can't" but you kinda "can't" use masking fluid on those papers. They are just too delicate and when you go to rub it off it will take the paper with it.
It's best to use it with heavy weight watercolor paper or illustration board. Another quick tip: your paint, ink, whatever you use will not dry on top of the mask so make sure to clean it off with a Q-tip or towel before you start rubbing it off.
FYI: in the artwork above I used
Ranger inks. They are cool beans because they are transparent but still vibrant.
Inspired by Balenciaga Fragrance.
Pencils, colored pencils and masking tape on paper
More on my blog.
With graphite sticks and masking tape on paper
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HERMOSO! (so beautiful!)
Gracias! ^_^