Years ago I went to an art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland called the Collection De L'Arte Brut. It began with art created by people in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and other kinds of "outcasts." It is still the most amazing, inspiring, transformative collection I have ever seen. So much of the work was created using pencils, ballpoint pens, plain paper, notepads, newsprint, crayons, ordinary objects, and trash. To this day, it inspires the mixed media art that I do.
YES! This is so true, especially with highlighters. I found a set of Sharpie liquid-ink highlighters. The ink stays liquid on the page for the just a fraction of a second, and you can smear it with your finger to get beautiful gradient effects. I did a whole set of tarot cards using highlighters for a lot of the color.
Awesome article and earned a sub!!!
Thank you!
Your sketches are so cute. Really love the first one 😊
Thank you!
This reminds me of four-color comics. Limitations in printing on cheap paper was supposedly what led to the Hulk being green. More generally
https://www.retrosupply.co/blogs/tutorials/comic-history-color-and-print
Very cool! Thanks for the link. Didn't know that bit of history
Thank you for this!
Years ago I went to an art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland called the Collection De L'Arte Brut. It began with art created by people in prisons, psychiatric hospitals, and other kinds of "outcasts." It is still the most amazing, inspiring, transformative collection I have ever seen. So much of the work was created using pencils, ballpoint pens, plain paper, notepads, newsprint, crayons, ordinary objects, and trash. To this day, it inspires the mixed media art that I do.
https://www.artbrut.ch/fr_CH/art-brut/qu-est-ce-que-l-art-brut
That sounds cool! Thanks for the link
YES! This is so true, especially with highlighters. I found a set of Sharpie liquid-ink highlighters. The ink stays liquid on the page for the just a fraction of a second, and you can smear it with your finger to get beautiful gradient effects. I did a whole set of tarot cards using highlighters for a lot of the color.
Also, your pictures are beautiful!
I love this! I just love a drawing on lined paper- I totally agree with you about the office supplies
Yeah it's great 😊