Just beautiful! Is it possible to colour over the top of dried liquid charcoal? I'm guessing not with any more wet media. The grainy marks and wonderful so I'm just thinking about how to create them in a full colour piece 🤔
Thank you Clair! That's a very good question! I've not tried adding colour, but he liquid charcoal can be reignited with water so anything you put over the top would affect it. Perhaps the other way round would work, so colour laid down first (whether thats paints, pencils, pastels or markers) and the liquid charcoal on top? I agree, the graininess is such a lovely characteristic of this medium. If it's the grainy quality you're after, you could try a granulating watercolour which comes in different colours?
Yeah I have some I've been using. Schminke I think they are? And I bought some Windsor & Newton granulating fluid but that doesn't seem to do much so I think I need to figure it out more 😅
Schmincke is gooood! Very fancy paint, I think W&D is a more economical version, maybe thats why you're not getting the same results? Great for messing about with in your sketchbook though
Just beautiful! Is it possible to colour over the top of dried liquid charcoal? I'm guessing not with any more wet media. The grainy marks and wonderful so I'm just thinking about how to create them in a full colour piece 🤔
Thank you Clair! That's a very good question! I've not tried adding colour, but he liquid charcoal can be reignited with water so anything you put over the top would affect it. Perhaps the other way round would work, so colour laid down first (whether thats paints, pencils, pastels or markers) and the liquid charcoal on top? I agree, the graininess is such a lovely characteristic of this medium. If it's the grainy quality you're after, you could try a granulating watercolour which comes in different colours?
Yeah I have some I've been using. Schminke I think they are? And I bought some Windsor & Newton granulating fluid but that doesn't seem to do much so I think I need to figure it out more 😅
Schmincke is gooood! Very fancy paint, I think W&D is a more economical version, maybe thats why you're not getting the same results? Great for messing about with in your sketchbook though
Amazing, I’m so enjoying following this story. What a beautiful drawing: powerful, emotive, melancholy. I can feel Beaufort’s sadness and fear.
Thank you Kat, I'm glad you're enjoying the story and the atmosphere is coming across. It's tough going for poor Beaufort!