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| Acrylic - excess paint - I did this at the very end of class. I had excess acrylic paint on my palette which would just dry and be unusable, so I wet a piece of paper and dumped the paint on and let it run and spread. I can use this as a background, the start of a painting, or an abstract painting. |
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| Acrylic on mixed media paper - I mixed an orange color and painted the bowls and jug. I used the green I had as well as a brown and the orange to paint the background and table. This will give me some color that may show through at the end. |
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| Pen & Ink on bristol board (vellum) - First I wet the background and dropped in ink. Next I did some pen & ink shading on some berries and leaves. I also did one berry with an ink wash. |
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| These are the various drawing techniques for ink (and pens and pencils too). |
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| This is what india ink looks like dropped full strength onto wet bristol board. as well as top right what ink looks like on dry paper wet on one end. |
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| This is the leaf with the 4 colors - after the yellow, red, and blue have been added separately and then another few passes with all 3 colors as needed and a little white in a few small areas. I have not pressed hard yet. I have used the side of the pencil |