I was in a slump and this class got me using a variety of materials and experimenting. For the first assignment I used watercolor, watercolor pencils, graphite, pen, brush pens, and Posca markers.

Experiment Projects - image 1 - student project

Next I did a page of eyes-closed self portraits and a non-dominant hand portrait that turned out better than I expected though doesn’t look like me at all.

Experiment Projects - image 2 - student project

Experiment Projects - image 3 - student project

Painting to music was fun. I listened to my song three times to complete this. I used watercolor, watercolor pencils, and Art Graf. This made me want to explore abstract watercolor.

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My initial drawing was the big-mouth bass in pencil. I also used brush pens, water soluble ink, watercolor pencil, and Posca. I don’t think I strayed much from the original design. If I were to do more, I’d push and make the fish shape more abstract.

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For the final project I did a watercolor beetle in the middle of the page and then made blind marks with a gray brush pen. It looked like grass to me so added more gray marks and others in greens and yellows with watercolor. While some of that was still wet, I made random hash marks with my fude pen. I like the way the pen cut out or darkened depending on how wet an area was.

Experiment Projects - image 6 - student project

Thank you for a great class! Just what I needed.

Gie Carr

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