Four days ago I decided I needed to keep an art journal. Just for me to experiment. No videos. Just for me. I bought a beautiful art journal which is multimedia but not really. You have to be careful about watercolors, etc.
I'm trying to find my best medium for this time of my life and since I'm drawn to watercolors and I've been studying off and on for a few years and I love to experiment I'm working to master this medium. Now, in truth, I believe pastels, soft pastels, are my strongest medium and if I went back to just chalk I would create beautiful work.
Still, I am intrigued water colors and other water based medium. These are subjects I've done in the past fours days and I have done the all in pastels and much better. But I have done some brilliant work with watercolor when I am patient. I don't have to be patient with pastels. Fixing mistakes is easy. Not so with watercolor. Patience is key. For watercolor and for me. But my hands still wabble, still remain unsteady and I wonder why I'm punishing myself.
That's what I figured out in three days. I didn't journal today yet. The day job got in the way. Anyway, I must be patient. I must let the medium lead. Like a slow dance. So I close my eyes, pretend I'm moving to a beautiful song in the arms oh Mr. Who. Just who is my dance partner? Graphite? Ink? Acrylic? Watercolor? Neo color 2? Gouache? Pastels?
Delta sparkle is the best animal portrait I've done since I was hospitalized. Its time to put away the water medium and go back to my original medium, chalk. In fact, while I exercise and continue to reclaim my drawing skills, I will start with white charcoal and white pencil on black paper.
In terms of teaching, acrylics and pastels are my strongest mediums. Just like the third grade, I'll pull out the chalk and write on the black board. Journaling really was helpful. I've been bouncing around too much trying to fix something that wasn't broken.
From my few days of journaling.
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