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Mixed Media Drawing Sheet

With most of the festivities over, and a Christmas tree that was practically without a single needle by Christmas day finally stripped of its motley selection of Hindu gods, Chinese new year charms and Wilkos tat I have picked up some college work again.

single drawing with half pen and ink and half collage
We did a drawing workshop in the last week of term and out homework was to fill in the different shapes and patterns we had made with colour.   The drawings were a collectively traced using a light box or window.  First as a single drawing and then next with a rotation of another drawing superimposed on top and further drawings in similar style layering images on top of each other to create quite abstract patterns. 

three drawings layered divided into three bottom water colour with ink , middle acrylic paint, top black dot work

The brief was then to divide each drawing into segments and fill each segment with a different technique - the intention to provide a drawing sample sheet showcasing different abilities using various mediums.

two different drawing layered divided into four and coloured using promarkers, black and white infill, water colour and acrylic
This was a very enjoyable process, fun to do the different medias even though other designs included coloured pencils and they were fairly disastrous - not my medium at all.  The final design is yet to be finished it is a single design rotated four ways and it is beginning to look very nice and may well end up as a final piece - watch this space!!

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