Craft Works - Let's Get Creative!
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Some new work, colored pencil and wax oil pastel on Lanaquarelle 300lb. (640 g/sm) cotton cold-pressed watercolor paper…
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Thank you chief!
I have a few photos that could help illustrate the process. These poor iphone pics weren't taken with a "step-by-step" sequence in mind (more just as a reference photo to keep me thinking while I'm at work), and I don't have photos of each stage, but hopefully these might give an idea of the evolution that the paper has gone through. It's much like a pair of jeans hopefully, in that the paper reflects the life it has lived…Thanks for looking!
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So I would love some impressions, any impressions, bad, good, it all helps….I'm trying out some new possibilities.
This is going to be a new type of series for me -- as opposed to the artwork in the above post ^^^ which is more like a smorgasbord of colored pencil -- this series will be more focused and minimal.
Still in progress but close...
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Another one just finished…"Aftermath", colored pencil on Rives BFK (280 g/sm french mouldmade cotton paper normally suited for printmaking)
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I absolutely love the blue…beautiful clear,cool and calm
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Much appreciation, @Black Orchid!
It's getting closer…
And this is the cotton paper pulp that gets ripped up during the process of drawing lines and writing/scribbling…
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And started a new one too. All colored pencil on Arches 400 lb. Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper. This is the 25oz. denim of the paper world!
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Thank you @adam313
That is such a wonderful and unique process. I love it. Thank you so much for sharing and giving us a glimpse into your process.
I think I know of a tool that you might find useful. I recently got myself a pair of these and they seem to have unlimited applications for people who use circles in their work. http://windfiredesigns.com/Tools/CircleTool/index.html
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Aren'y they?! They're really well designed and well made. Such unique tools and I can't think of another like them anywhere. Great people to deal with as well.
For some perspective:
The small one is about 7" at it's widest point. The large one is about 19" at it's widest point. -
Thank you so much @seawolf
That is quite a useful link! I might get them both down the line a bit… It's amazing what we can do with laser cutters these days. About four years ago I bought a bunch of plexiglass and had a laser cutting company in Santa Fe, NM cut me circles all the way up to 22"! I asked them to place registration marks every 30' (12 per circle), so they are exactly what I need.
But I also do it the hard way by hand too. Pardon the long description. To start, I draw lines coming out of a central point (aka a starburst pattern) every 3 degrees, so I have 120 lines of six inches (could be any length, just that they are all the same). Now is where the geometry comes in. Starting with one of those lines, I can etch a perfect circle if I connect the end of that line to another 12 lines away (36 degrees). That will make 12 ten-sided polygons that essentially create a circle from their edges. If I connect the starting line to another 15 lines away (45 degrees), I can etch a circle by drawing 15 octagons. 20 lines away, and I can etch a circle with 20 hexagons. 24 lines away (72 degrees), I can do it with 24 pentagons, and so forth…Here is what it looks like....
Lots and lots of lines, but the concentration of lines really creates a perfectly circular deeply etched outline which is exactly what I want.
And then the cumulative accumulation begins….Colored pencil on Arches 400lb. CP Watercolor Paper
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Thank you [I think I know of a tool that you might find useful. I recently got myself a pair of these and they seem to have unlimited applications for people who use circles in their work. http://windfiredesigns.com/Tools/CircleTool/index.html
Those are cool. I expect you use them a lot for the ends of straps and corners of, well, pretty much everything?](http://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=11338)
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I hope nobody minds me bombing this thread with some regularity…
Updates on the blue, it's evolving...more ahead
