So, after years (er, decades) of photography and digital work, I decided to really dive in to more traditional media, just to expand my options. So, about 6 months ago, I started learning to draw, and have definitely fallen in love with ink (particularly via brush, sumi-e style) and compressed charcoal. And even though I barely have a handle on either medium *really*, I of course can’t resist diving into the ultimate aim, which is combining the photography/digital with the traditional.
So last night’s experiment was charcoal over a digital underdrawing (a hot mess, largely because I forget that I can’t do really small scale charcoal, but still a success because now I know I can do charcoal succesfully over my favorite matte giclee surface.) Tonight’s was ink over giclee on charcoal paper, and still nothing I’m going to stick in my portfolio (or sign), but interesting (to me at least) nonetheless for how the ink interacted with the remnants of photograph:
Maybe I should post some of my drawings that don’t suck…
