Basic limitation of colored pencils.
Herbert Ward
things by filling in the negative space around them.
For example, support you want to write a paragraph in white letters.
With oil paint this is easy: block in a dark background, let it dry,
then write the words with a small brush and white paint. Actual
brush-on-canvas time is two minutes.
But with colored pencils (because the white pencil is nowhere near
opaque), you would start with white paper and laboriously fill in the
negative space in and around each letter. It'd take days, look bad
anyhow, and probably have some errors. And it's even worse if you use
layering or a difficult texture effect.
Yeah, you could start with black paper to achieve white-on-dark
detail, but usually you want dark-on-white detail in some other part
of the drawing.
Frisk film (frisket) works for simple objects like teapots and round
clocks, but it's too clumsy for complex objects like snowflakes or
subtle shapes like a quarter profile. Ditto for scraping with a
blade.
http://www.rcip.com/nerdgerl
:-|
Anyway, I decided to use colored pencil drawings as an underpaintings. Then go
over the dang things with oil pastel.
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wa...@physics.utexas.edu says...
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>The biggest trouble I see with colored pencils is that you draw white
>things by filling in the negative space around them.
I'm not sure what the intent of this post is.
It deals with the obvious to me. Watercolorists
know this as an essential element of watercolor
technique - that white is the white of the paper.
And people who draw in any medium, colored or
not, use the same methodology. So what is your
point?
Herbert Ward
> It deals with the obvious to me. Watercolorists
> know this as an essential element of watercolor
> technique - that white is the white of the paper.
> And people who draw in any medium, colored or
> not, use the same methodology. So what is your
> point?
I hoped to elicit some discussion of how people deal with this
problem, so that I could add to my meagre technique. As you can see,
I'd forgotten how kind people are.
Randolph Kutz
white, I've used white acrylic paint with some success. But I've only tried
it for small areas.
Randy
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>When I want to apply white on colored pencil for highlight, or just for
>white, I've used white acrylic paint with some success. But I've only tried
>it for small areas.
Watercolor purists resist use of white paint
to accent the whites but Chinese White
is usually considered an essential in
most palettes. I have used acrylic myself
to highlight watercolor paintings. And
we've discussed the use of things
like Magic White etc - correction fluids - as
a highlighter. The problem with using
these opaque additions is usually one of
ruining the aesthetics of the work - the
continuity or singularity or whatever.