I've been meaning to show you this demo on Golden's High Flow Acrylics for ages, and finally got around to editing a little video and getting all the parts together. So, here is a little video on using High Flow Acrylics. For Golden's own video demo, go here.
I am looking forward to experimenting more with the markers; so far I've mostly used the High Flow Acrylics in the Fine Line Applicator and straight out of the bottle.
Detail of High Flow used in the Fine Line Applicator
Same as above, but a different piece. Then layered with paint
3'x3' canvas, in which I used the High Flow right out of the bottle as well as in the Fine Line Applicator.
I am offering a giveaway of a High Flow Set with Markers plus a Fine Line Applicator, so you can find out for yourself how cool these materials and tools are for expressive mark making.
This is the Fine Line Applicator you get in the giveaway.
The High Flow set with markers in the giveaway.
All you have to do to to qualify for the giveaway is comment on this post and say you are interested. PLUS, you have to be in the US or Canada. Overseas shipping is to much. If you are in Newfoundland or Nova Scotia you get better odds.
I will post a winner on Wednesday, April 23, and it will be the winner's responsibility to check the blog, and then e-mail me with a shipping address.
Welcome to the first installment of a series on DRAWING PRACTICES, which I will be posting every Friday for six Fridays. It’s not a step-by-step how-to-draw course, as much as a series of suggestions for keeping your drawing practice alive.
Blind Scribble
The Blind Scribble is a good place to begin if you are either new to drawing or haven’t done it for a while. Maybe you paint, collage, sew or make assemblage with abandon, but drawing, for some reason, intimidates you. Even if you draw on a regular basis, this first practice brings you back to basics.
You need: Paper A pen Other drawing materials (optional)
Put the piece of paper in front of you on your work surface. Place the pen somewhere on the paper. Close your eyes. Draw. Just move the pen around, slowly exploring the paper. Focus on the sensation of moving the pen over the paper. Now try different kinds of lines, still with your eyes closed: try wavy lines, saw tooth lines, broken lines, smooth lines, jagged lines…. Move faster, move more slowly. When you’ve had enough, stop and open your eyes. Get another sheet of paper and repeat the process. Ways to vary this exercise:
Draw to music: draw to slow, melodic music; draw to fast rhythmic music; draw to music you hate; draw to atmospheric, non-rhythmic music. Keep your eyes closed and give your whole being over to the sound and the feeling of drawing.
Switch drawing materials: Change to a brush-tip marker, a crayon, a colored pencil, a thick graphite stick, a piece of charcoal… This one is charcoal, then I brushed water over the drawing.
Make one blind scribble drawing; switch material and make another drawing over the first one.
I used water-soluble pencil for the second blind drawing over the marker original. Then I brushed water over the pencil.
Make a blind scribble drawing, then, with your eyes open, draw into it or over it with a different material. In this one I did a blind scribble in white crayon over the first blind scribble, then painted into it with watercolor. For more drawing exercises, see the Tutorials page on the Sketchbook Challenge blog. I hope you enjoy these exercises; thanks for visiting!
