In an effort to get my self more notice as an artist, I’ve decided that I need to constantly try new things artistically.
As readers of the blog and followers on twitter know, I’ve entered some contests lately, one of which voting is done and winners will be announced soon.
Laura suggested that I try to take place in more art contests from one of the companies I’d submitted to, and to more online contests in general.
Also, I’m pretty excited to start an idea I’v had for some time now. I’m going to work on my first series of art, individual pieces that all tie in to one another. I can’t tell you what the subject matter is yet, cause that would ruin the surprise, but I can tell you that I’ve decided to do something wacky medium-wise. I’m doing this series all in CRAYONS. I may do some prelim layout in pencil, but the brunt of the works will all be done in crayon. There will certainly be nothing like it in my portfolio, that’s for sure.
As I’ve said I’ve been wanting to try new things with my art. Usually I work in pen and ink and the digital media, but I want to try to use other mediums. I decided to use crayons for this first project because back in October I got a weekend gig doing portraiture at the local Renn Faire, and to give it and “Olde World” feel I thought I’d try pastels, turns out I didn’t still own any, so in a quick moment of panic and/or inspiration I ran to the store on my way to the gig and bought a box of crayons. The effect turned out great and I made a good chunk for collectively 8 hours of drawing. I’m curious now though how the experience will go now that I’m actually planning around the use of crayons instead of using them as my McGruber fix.
So I’m bouncing thoughts off any and all readers for this blog.
My first project will be: [subject TBA], medium: crayons, durration: 13 pieces.
Here is a list of other things I think I want to try after these 13 are done:
-Watercolor pencil
-negative space / white on black
-mixed media spackle
-stenciling / spray paint / graffiti art
-interior design of some sort.
We’ll just have to see what Austin, TX has to offer.
wish me luck,
-zach
