3 Materials Challenge: Day 13
I had the idea that I wanted to try the white water-soluble crayon on top of the Decorating Chalk, so I just scrolled my old photos until I found an idea—a diamond painting of a luna moth.
I went for a a blue background instead of green, even though the luna moth is green… Not sure why. Well, the white pastel/crayon didn’t really show up as much against the light blue as I’d hoped. I think I need a darker background, so maybe I’ll try something else, like marker, next time.
Anyway, here’s today’s sketch/doodle:
Today’s materials: Medium-pale blue Decorating Chalk, white water-soluble pastel, and a dark brown water color pencil, just because that’s what was handy. It’s a Staedtler Karat from a set Donald brought with him when he moved from Sweden. I couldn’t use it with water this time, because the paper can’t handle water. But look what happened when I smudged the white crayon over the pencil: It turned pink! I’m not sure if it would have done that with a regular color pencil, but I doubt it. Interesting!
Endless Art Challenge
I gave the Endless Art Challenge deck of cards another try, yesterday.
My prompts:
Animal, Blush, & Use 5 Colors or Less
Again, I just did the first thing to pop into my head. One of the most “blush” colors in the watercolor set I used was named “ballerina pink” (or similar), and I was still in a Terry Runyan frame of mind, so pink ballerina cats it was!
I roughly paint-doodled some ballerina cats using two shades of pink/blush/peach. Then I pulled out an Inktense pencil. (Can’t recall if it was Mid Vermillion or Scarlet Pink…) I added a few lines to the tutus and feet/shoes, then had another idea. I drew simple swirls across the empty areas of the page, and after softly activating the pencil lines on the tutus, I wet each swirl of pencil and pulled out the pigment to make a simple stylized rose.
After it dried, I went back with a little dab of leftover white gouache from my palette to tone down an area for each cat’s muzzle.
And the last step was to add details with a micro-tipped black ink pen.
5 colors or less:
- blush pink watercolor
- peachy watercolor
- single Inktense pencil
- white gouache
- black ink pen
I clearly know nothing about ballet positions and didn’t bother to look them up—and I wish I had done one or two things differently—but on the whole, I had a lot of fun with this one.
This is pretty much exactly how I envisioned the Endless Art Challenge deck working, so I’m happy with that!
Knitting Update
Taking my time, but making progress. It is nice to have something to knit/crochet on again!
