For this exercise I chose to use my mini sketchbook, using charcoal pencil, collage, acrylic paints, paint brushes and a catalyst wedge tool
Charcoal Pencil and Catalyst Wedge Tool
I wanted to explore how these different tools and mediums could work together in different ways, depending on how you applied them and in which order.
Charcoal pencil is very smudgy and so I wanted to see what would happen if you added paint over it and also added the charcoal pencil on top. I experimented with washes of paint, starting with watercolour (before I decided to stick with acrylic) and then onto acrylic.
I am really into black spots on white as a pattern right now and I used the left over advertisment I had to cut up and make shapes to glue onto the pages. The process was all very random and fun.
I also used the pattern with the charcoal pencil to continue the theme.
The catalyst wedge is a tool I haven't used before and just received in the post recently. I wanted to see what it could do on a small scale.
How the different types of paper affected the media also really interested me. I had a mix of watercolour and other sketchbook paper pages and I loved how the paints worked with the natural textures in the watercolour paper.
Chapter 1: Watercolour study.
Chapter 2: Doodles study
Chapter 3: Washes Study
Chapter 4: Catalyst Wedge Study
Chapter 5: Catalyst Wedge Study 2
Reflection:
I found these studies really interesting since these were mediums I usually work with however I wanted to see what else they could do. The catalyst wedge tool is new to me and I was interested to see how it made marks with the paint. I only used one edge of the wedge so there is still further study to do.
The paint behaved differently on the different paper types and I played with layering the elements differently on each chapter.
These studies are going to be very useful for future paintings.
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