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Try This: Drawing Still Life

Drawing can be as easy and complicated as you choose it to be. Still Life is a good way to hone your skills. Set up something you can draw many times in different styles. Keep working until you’re happy with the results.

Try This: Encaustic

All painting is pigment plus a binder. Many paints, like watercolor and acrylic, are liquid at room temperature. Encaustic is a pigment mixed with wax. The paint needs to be heated to be viscous enough to apply to a paint surface. The media is challenging, requiring a fast hand. The rich surface, however, makes this media satisfying.

Try This: Silverpoint

Silverpoint is an age-old form of drawing, using a metal point on a gessoed surface. The contrast in the fine details of the drawings increases over time as the image oxides in the air.

Try This: Silkscreen Printing Using a Vinyl Stencil

This type of printing is effective to make multiple screenprints without many specialized tools (like when transferring a photograph to a silkscreen). You’d need the basic silkscreen materials (screen, squeegee, ink) and vinyl. You can cut a pattern with scissors or with an Exacto. This style of printmaking is wonderful for simple, bold images.

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Try This: Drawing Still Life

Try This: Encaustic

Try This: Silverpoint

Try This: Silkscreen Printing Using a Vinyl Stencil

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