Sgraffito
4.4.1
I started off with Crayola glitter crayons as I couldn't lay my hands on the ordinary ones. They are done on slightly shiny card and painted over with black gouache. For some reason they look as though there is no colour under them although I thought it was quite bright.
The larger tree is done with ordinary Crayola chunky ones (eventually found) and the colours again were supposed to be bright but appear quite muted.
The next picture of the sailing boat was done with Neo oil pastels and this time painted over with dark blue, it is done on paper which although I thought it was smooth, perhaps wasn't smooth enough. I'm not at all pleased with it. I did another again on paper with paler paint on top which was so horrible it is in the bin.
Back to fat crayons and my slightly shiny card. The colours are weird for a cat, but at least I like him better and the pear is sort of OK. But all of them even though they have been left for ages are dirty to handle, both paper and card with the paint coming off. Is this normal and do they have to be fixed?
I quite liked the medium by the time I had finished but it is a pest if it has to be coated afterwards.
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