Teatime...
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:51 am
I recently purchased a copy of Carne Griffiths book 'The Organic Painter'. This amazing artist mixes teas, coffee, herbal teas, wines/alcohol, salt, wax resist, stamps, ink -anything- to create a mark on the page. Check his fantastic work out here: https://www.carnegriffiths.com/
So his book kicked start an entire term with my Thursday class of experimental drawings using anything and everything! I was able to purchase bulk ($1 a cm) offcuts of Waterford 300gsm cold press paper 38 x 13.5cm and we went to town!
first we did test sheets and experiments: Using a variety of different mediums and created stamps using white poly material (white erasers) and painted, drew, salted, stamped away! Here are 16 or so of mine that I consider 'finished': these used a variety of things: teas for background washes (English breakfast, Dilma black, Cranberry, Rosehip, Saffron, Tumeric), Inks (Sennelier Sepia and Turquoise), Wax candle for resist drawing, Salt, Breadcrumbs, Wine (very sticky cheap Muscatto, a mistake), Gin, Scotch (too expensive), Windsor Newton watercolour markers, Faber Castel water colour sticks, Adel pens, dip pens, stamps.... and other stuff I may have forgotten.
Personally I like the 'cypress' versions best. Althought the sea stamps and jellies I like too. the one on the right I completed this morning.
This is lots of fun and you can be as painterly loose or drawing tight as you like! Check out Griffiths book and have a play.
Linda Weil
So his book kicked start an entire term with my Thursday class of experimental drawings using anything and everything! I was able to purchase bulk ($1 a cm) offcuts of Waterford 300gsm cold press paper 38 x 13.5cm and we went to town!
first we did test sheets and experiments: Using a variety of different mediums and created stamps using white poly material (white erasers) and painted, drew, salted, stamped away! Here are 16 or so of mine that I consider 'finished': these used a variety of things: teas for background washes (English breakfast, Dilma black, Cranberry, Rosehip, Saffron, Tumeric), Inks (Sennelier Sepia and Turquoise), Wax candle for resist drawing, Salt, Breadcrumbs, Wine (very sticky cheap Muscatto, a mistake), Gin, Scotch (too expensive), Windsor Newton watercolour markers, Faber Castel water colour sticks, Adel pens, dip pens, stamps.... and other stuff I may have forgotten.
Personally I like the 'cypress' versions best. Althought the sea stamps and jellies I like too. the one on the right I completed this morning.
This is lots of fun and you can be as painterly loose or drawing tight as you like! Check out Griffiths book and have a play.
Linda Weil