More neocolor II crayons on hot press watercolour paper! Learning these is taking some time; unfortunately much of the content on youtube about them is people trying them for the first time, and that’s really not helping me unlock their secrets! But as I keep digging I am finding more folks at least systematically testing them out.
I am also systematically testing them out – next up will be to do a gouache piece and work these overtop; and also to test out how they interact with my prismacolour pencil crayons. I also want to test these solo on midtone or darker papers; and I want to see how they could work as underpaintings with oil pastel work on top. They also advertise themselves as extremely substrate-agnostic, and promise functionality on “paper, cardboard, glass, wood, leather, fabric, stone” and so forth, so there’s a lot more experimentation possible ahead of me. Mars, an artist I know over discord, told me they use these for monoprints too! which sounds extremely fun and honestly I haven’t explored monoprinting at all so far as an artist! But we might be enterinbg the dangerous realm of scope creep with these revelations, so for now I’ll focus on a gouache layering test next and take it from there.
Have you used anything like these before? How else are they fun?
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