While I’m slowly but surely getting my way back into art I’m playing around with a lot of mediums to find which one I’m most comfortable with. I’ve had a lot of art supplies lying around for a while so I’m completely spoilt for choice. I am finding I’m better with things than I was when I actually studied art which is a rather delightful surprise. I think you’ve guessed where day 22 of Blogtober is going right now!
After watching season 2 of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and seeing a guy during one of the heats do an entire portrait out of Promarkers, I decided I wanted to try my luck with the rather bright pens. I bought 2 sets from Amazon but couldn’t quite get to grips with them. I abandoned them in a drawer but now I’ve decided to just go for it and if it’s a mess then it’s a mess. I’ve only really done one complete drawing with Promarkers so far but I was quite pleased with the outcome. It did remind me that I am awful with proportion though!
I’ve also been using watercolours quite a lot but I’ve refrained from saying they’re a favourite medium until I completely get to grips with them. Whenever I do a watercolour painting I always use my watercolour pencils for touch ups and details. I’ve had these Caran D’Ache Museum Aquarelle pencils for a while and I’m now starting to understand them. My first attempt with them was awful and now there’s a page in my sketchbook that I can’t bear to look at.
Ink and I have always gotten along like a house on fire. I was a bit wary about using ink before as I had no idea what I could really do with the bright colours I have. I’ve since discovered that ink is great for lettering and obnoxiously colourful paintings. There’s a rather fabulous photo spread of Sky Ferreira in an old issue of Another Man which is full of colour and is perfect for recreating with ink.
Despite the awful stench of masking fluid, it is a little miracle. I’m not the neatest of people when it comes to art so masking fluid is brilliant at stopping the ink I’m using from bleeding into the wrong area. Palette knives are also great for a messy person like me. I have far too much fun adding more and more paint and pushing it around the page in order to get some texture and interesting details.
Of course you can’t do much painting without some paintbrushes so they had to be included in this post. I prefer to work with finer paintbrushes due to my shaky hands and the ones pictured are the best I own. I’m also a sucker for outlining things (I blame that on an obsession with Miami Ink a few years ago) so these rather fabulous pens had to be featured. I do like to use my black Promarker for outlining as well but for the most part, I use the finer pens for such a thing.
Hopefully I’ll find the medium (or mediums) for me soon. I do thoroughly enjoy working with ink but as I appear to have multiple bottles of pink despite them clearly being marked as different colours I’m a little limited as to what I can do with them. Perhaps it’s time to invest in more!
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