Today we looked at a piece of artwork by Misato Suzuki to see how she had created it, and we had a go at using the same techniques to see what we could achieve ourselves. We also took inspiration from it to create our own work.
We created layers of colour, depth and texture, using tea and coffee to stain our paper, as well as berries, beetroot, and turmeric. Although we did not look at the printing aspect of the work, some of us did try out a few experiments to see what printing effects we could achieve, using a slightly shiny paper, coloured pencil and soft graphite pencil.
We also used various types of pen, ink, and dip pen to create the line aspect in our work. Everybody used differing ink media, and you can see the unique effects; some dispersed when covered over with the wet media (even the ‘permanent, waterproof’ ink), and some didn’t, and then again, each ‘black’ had differing colour undertones. This contributes to fabulous variety in everyone’s artwork. This was a really fun session, and I thank everyone for their participation, well done all.
