by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday June 25, 2008
Paintings by Brett Bean, nature photos by Micheal Jones and craftwork by SabiiWabii.
Bean Scribbles
Brett Bean draws for a living. But on his website Bean Scribbles he shows of his personal drawings. Apart from a few landscapes he likes to draw a lot of people. Although his people aren’t always people.
Small alien by Brett Bean
Some on the other hand are. Like this drawing of his wife.
Julie by Brett Bean
Nature walker’s photos
On Nature walker Micheal Jones share his passion for nature. He show some beautiful nature photo’s.
SabiiWabii paper and fabric arts
This next set of pictures if more about craft then about art. SabiiWabii make very nice and funny paper and fabric figures.
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by Henk ter Heide on Friday June 15, 2007
A tortillon is a piece of compressed paper you can buy in the shop or can make yourselves. It’s used to pull the pigment over your sheet of paper.
I’ve used it ones to find out what I could do with it. But I was a little disappointed. I thought that it should be possible to create a nicer effect. After some experimenting I’ve found that an ordinary piece of (single sheet) toilet paper works wonders.
Nova
If you’ve ever looked at the texture of drawing paper you’ll know that it isn’t completely flat but kind of bumpy.
When you hold your pencil almost on it’s side when you draw, you only grace the bumps. The lower parts of the paper texture stays white. When you first start with drawing you learn to see the white parts as an disadvantage but actually it isn’t.
By using a piece of kitchen or toilet paper you can spread the pigment evenly accros the paper and get a kind of glassy feel.
You’ll have to try it for yourselves to see it because it doesn’t scan that well.
For this drawing I used a second sheet of paper as a kind of painters palette and a piece of toilet paper as a brush. I colored the edge of the “palette” and used the “brush” to pull a little bit of pigment onto this sheet. Then I moved the “palette” and pulled some more pigment on this sheet.
To be fair there is one exception to the rule that blending with (toilet) paper gives nicer results then blending with a tortillon and that’s when you’re in a tight spot. A (commercial) tortillon has a pointed top which makes it ideally suited for small spaces.
A problem with tortillons is that pigment will stick to the top. If you don’t want to buy a tortillong for every color you’ll ever use you can use a blank piece of drawing paper to rub the pigment of the top.
While drawing this picture I accidentally found a new technique. I’ll try it as soon as I have the materials I need and I’ve thought of a picture to draw.
(I’ve send this drawing off to a source of inspiration.)
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