Coloured Tangles in Sketchbook
by Katherine Nutt
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Coloured Tangles in Sketchbook
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Katherine Nutt
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Photograph - Nikon Z5
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Day 29 of the One Year Challenge
Colouring tangle patterns. Colouring can be a challenge for me when I really like the simplicity of the black and white line drawing. I often feel I have ruined it with my choices and have to go overboard with more colour and more media to try and bring it back to a place I am okay with. Practicing in the journal maybe a good place to work out some of those issues and learn what I need to do for better colour.
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January 29th, 2022
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Peter Brighouse
Reading your description Katherine, I wondered whether you scan your line drawings before any colouring, then if required you can print the image on to art paper ready for a different colourway? Even choosing different shades for the art paper - I use Canford. My wife often says “aren’t you going to colour in the background?”, whereas my daughter-in-law, a graphic designer on The Times of London, says, tactfully, “Peter, keep it simple!”
Katherine Nutt replied:
Yes,Peter, when I remember I most certainly scan the black and white versions! I like how your daughter-in-law thinks 😸 I like the idea of differently shaded paper. Recently I discovered brusho inks and have used them to do backgrounds but that’s way too messy for the journal the way I have used them so far.
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