Monday, June 23, 2014

Digital Drawing Day - Night



Do you remember that art project where you used a piece of poster board and covered it pretty solidly with random-colored crayon, then covered that with black India ink, which, when dry, you scratched a design into, uncovering the color below, in the scratched design? I think everyone did this in elementary school. This was a similar process. I filled three layers with color. Yellow on the bottom, deep blue over that and black on the top. Then I used the "eraser" tool to scratch through layers to create the design. 
iPad, Sketch Club app

I love the idea of nighttime scenes, but it is hard to get enough contrast to really make them work. I have recently completed two fabric pieces with "night" themes.

The Moon is a Mirror

Desert Nights

It is a theme I will continue to explore. 

Next weeks theme: Purple




9 comments:

  1. Love it Terry! I think you've taken off with your new medium.

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  2. LOVE both of the quilts! Desert Nights makes me think of Las Vegas.

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  3. I really like your night themes.

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  4. We had scratchboard in jr high, but I don't remember the crayon/ink process. Doesn't mean we didn't do it, HA! Cool electronic reinterpretation!

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  5. i think you have night wonderfully well in all mediums..what a good monday post..ok excellent monday post..i opened it after driving on I 95 all day and it was a most wonderful antidote to the day.

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  6. WOW! Love, Del (who hardly ever sees stars)

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  7. Love Desert Nights! Wow

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  8. Brilliant idea to do the scratching back method. It really works very well.
    Sandy

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  9. Nice!! Love the crayon to digital idea, Terry. I'm going to try this too!

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