I love working with charcoal, the messiness of it, and it stops me fiddling with niggly details. New art supplies! I think I have the same palette knives... Italian aren't they? However, I work in acrylic and assorted mixed media. Oil paint would be disastrous in my living room in a tiny flat😂. Enjoyed your preliminary sketches and finished painting, so free and expressive💜💫
Hi Redwing! Hope you're well. Yes, it's great to engineer out the possibility of fiddly details. Yes indeed - they very economical. I made the transition to the workshop (as it was) when I left a large patch of yellow ochre on the spare room carpet!!
I love it. I’ve for some reason decided to learn how to paint in oils, currently working on my first painting. I feel really stiff while painting, afraid of making mistakes. Your painting looks super loose and confident, maybe I should try painting more like it. Thanks for sharing your progress by the way
My pleasure at Pixeliarmus; thanks for watching. So exciting that you're starting out with oils - all I can say is just keep at it. They're very forgiving - I love being able to scrape them off if I'm not happy and edit here and there!
If you like the expressiveness of charcoal but hate how it smudges, you can actually transfer the drawing easily and make it a monotype print. The best demonstration of this is on Yates Makes channel on TH-cam. Pick the video called Charcoal drawing transfers …. It’s a cool way to sell your charcoal drawings
"Well that was marvellous" I agree 😁
Try conté crayon. They are sort or halfway between charcoal and pastels, can be worked, pushed around and overlayed. I love em.
I love working with charcoal, the messiness of it, and it stops me fiddling with niggly details. New art supplies! I think I have the same palette knives... Italian aren't they? However, I work in acrylic and assorted mixed media. Oil paint would be disastrous in my living room in a tiny flat😂.
Enjoyed your preliminary sketches and finished painting, so free and expressive💜💫
Hi Redwing! Hope you're well. Yes, it's great to engineer out the possibility of fiddly details. Yes indeed - they very economical. I made the transition to the workshop (as it was) when I left a large patch of yellow ochre on the spare room carpet!!
Nice to see you again! A few weeks ago I bought a sanguine pencil and that changed completely my drawing process. A new world for me!
Likewise! Thanks for the tip - I certainly will give that a go. Have a nice weekend amigo :)
I love it. I’ve for some reason decided to learn how to paint in oils, currently working on my first painting. I feel really stiff while painting, afraid of making mistakes. Your painting looks super loose and confident, maybe I should try painting more like it. Thanks for sharing your progress by the way
My pleasure at Pixeliarmus; thanks for watching. So exciting that you're starting out with oils - all I can say is just keep at it. They're very forgiving - I love being able to scrape them off if I'm not happy and edit here and there!
If you like the expressiveness of charcoal but hate how it smudges, you can actually transfer the drawing easily and make it a monotype print. The best demonstration of this is on Yates Makes channel on TH-cam. Pick the video called Charcoal drawing transfers …. It’s a cool way to sell your charcoal drawings
that's a cracking idea. thank you :)