Medium: Colored Pencil Category: Drawing/Composition
This
tutorial and demonstration showing how colored pencil can be
successfully lifted and corrected is from the book, "Basic Colored
Pencil Techniques" by Bet Borgeson, published by North Light Books, an
imprint of F + W Publications. Reprinted with permission. All steps
included.
|
Lifting Color: Two Methods
MATERIALS:
FRISKET FILM - "Grafix (R) Prepared Frisket Film " Low Tack, .002 Vinyl, 9" x 12" matte or clear
MASKING TAPE - Ordinary household kind or drafting tape
BURNISHING TOOLS - Kemper Double Ball Stylus and a flat-nibbed modeling tool or similar
Applied Colored Pencil on resilient white paper
|
|
|
|
| Using Masking Tape Small
pieces of masking tape are positioned over an area to be lifted.
Masking tape is especially tacky, so additional care should be taken
when positioning it. Any accidental patting may cause undesirable color
lifts. The burnishing tool shown here is an inexpensive wooden modeling
tool. Its wide nib is perfect for lifting large areas. [Burnishing in
this technique is done lightly, not with heavy pressure.] |
Both
pieces of tape have now been carefully pulled away revealing two kinds
of lifts: the top, straight-edged lift was achieved by burnishing
completely to the edge of the tape; the ragged edge below it was
achieved by burnishing less completely. |
|
|
|
|
Using Frisket Film A
small piece of film is peeled from its backing sheet and repositioned
to partly expose some of its tacky surface. It is then placed tacky
side down on the area to be erased, textured or drawn on. Patting or
pressing the film into place should be avoided because unexpected lifts
of color could occur. The kind of burnishing tool used will greatly
affect the result. Shown here is a double ball stylus. It has a
polished metal ball-tip on each end and will produce lines or marks.
[As with tape above, burnishing is done lightly.]
|
After
drawing marks on the frisket film with the stylus, the film is pulled
back. The light-valued marks on the sample shown are the result of
lifting color. The lifted color itself can be seen on the tacky side of
the frisket film.
|
Lifting Color: DEMONSTRATION
Most
of the time, color lifting techniques are hardworking and unobtrusive.
You can use them regularly without a great deal of planning, relying on
the natural freedom they allow in our work.
But
there are also situations when these modest techniques can be called
upon to do more spectacular things. At times like this, our new
abilities at lifting color can seem almost magic. Here is an example.
|
|
|
|
|
Step One This
colored pencil drawing obviously needed some big changes. It needed
more drama in its overall color scheme, and more color complexity
throughout. But even a more serious flaw was its weak and isolated
center of interest--the magician's hat and cane--placed squarely in too
large an environment. Before the development of modern color lifting
techniques these problems might have seemed too enormous, and beyond
correction.
|
Step Two As
a beginning, the hat and some of the background were lifted away, using
frisket film, masking tape, and the medium-wide burnisher shown. Bits
and pieces of tape remain for possible reuse after beginning the
erasure of some of the tablecloth and lower left corner of the
background. Notice the beginning of starts in the upper left corner.
These were drawn negatively by lifting out star shapes with frisket
film and a pointed burnisher.
|
|
|
Step Three To
complete the changes the background color was lifted to a light value
that can still be seen in the stars. Then new and more complex colors
were applied. Almost all the colors of the table cloth and cane were
removed to accommodate a new white ruffle, red ribbon and red cane.
Finally
to correct the center-of-interest problem, enough of the dark hat was
lifted to allow the white rabbit to take it place. Some of the hat
colors can still be seen faintly in the slightly shaded rabbit's paws.
Like Magic
11" x 14" (27.9cm x 35.6cm),
Colored Pencil on Rising Museum Board
By Bet Borgeson
Her Website
Tutorial/demonstration from Basic Colored Pencil Techniques by Bet Borgeson and published by North Light Books, an imprint of F + W Publications. Reprinted with permission.
|
![[레벨:4]](http://www.artistclub.org/zbxe/modules/point/icons/default/4.gif "포인트:1470point (3%), 레벨:4/30"){kind=icon}
아티스트클럽
아티스트클럽에 자주 오세요. 
