Monday, 3 June 2013

grease is the word

From time to time I paint my drawing paper with oil.  It is a very sympathetic surface to draw onto and there is much fun to be had with the translucent quality it gives.

It does change a great deal over time though... here's what  a piece of oil soaked paper looks like after nine years:

 


  It's not translucent at all any more but there's some real nice texture to make up for it.  Maybe I could make drawings like whiskey - lock them up for a decade before showing them to anyone...
 
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  1. Judy Watson3 June 2013 at 17:35

    Yes, good idea! That's what Bill Henson could have done with his controversial photographic exhibition in 2008 to overcome objections... We thought anyway... But maybe he liked the objections.

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    1. Unknown4 June 2013 at 00:57

      Perhaps it would have been wiser to let those girls grow up ten more years instead!

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  2. Sasha4 June 2013 at 00:38

    Very interesting...are we talking cooking oil?

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    1. Unknown4 June 2013 at 00:54

      I think it was sunflower oil. Linseed oil goes even darker... All the pictures in While You Are Sleeping are done that way. Actually, I haven't looked at that artwork for a while. I guess it looks pretty different now...

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  3. Joel Stewart4 June 2013 at 05:05

    Nice. I'm drawing characters with similar Key-stoney costumes at the moment, given I have to make them definitely Coppers, but not not definitely UK centric. Blimmin' global market. It's quite fun though.

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  4. Joel Stewart4 June 2013 at 05:06

    Not "not not" but not...

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    1. Unknown4 June 2013 at 05:32

      There was a big fuss with Beegu about the phone box being too UK-centric... now all the phone boxes have pretty much gone anyway. I like the idea that picturebooks all take place in this weird non-country somewhere.

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