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what first comes to mind…relax man! pressing in too hard in your excitement?
there are several makers i enjoy, my favorite is prismacolor for their color pallet and feel.
here’s a drawing i did with these pencils in my late teens…
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Abe!.. I hit the art supply store for colored pencils, and wanted to give a follow-up on what I found, and share a couple things that others might be interested in..
I looked at their Prismacolor offerings, but those were only boxed sets and I wasn’t thrilled with the color selections overall, so I passed on those (and pricey too, which is a consideration).. But they did have 2 other brands, both wax-based, and offered individual pencils that I could pick and choose from.. And both are water-soluble, and can be treated like watercolors with a moist brush once they’re down on paper.. I’m sure you’ve done all that, but I’m excited to give that a whirl, as I’ve never done it..
The two brands are Kor-I-Noor’s Mondeluz line, and Derwent.. I looked into both of ‘em, and Derwent has a wide line of different kinds of pencils, but the ones I got turned out to be tinted graphite that can be used for shading effect, and if you watercolorize them, they’re even erasable still after drying.. (watched a demonstration video).. *Very* excited about all that, especially as one of these colors I chose is black, so that’s gonna give me something to work with in terms of dark and background shading..
Also, I now understand fully that lead breakage during sharpening is due to the leads already being fractured or broken within the wood itself.. That was very helpful to come to understand.. For some reason, never considered that I don’t think, especially with more chalky pencils.. The attendant at the store said you can remedy wax-based broken leads by putting them in the sun or a hot car to melt and meld the wax back together.. I’m thinking warm dehydrator.. 🙂
I also got a German blade sharpened.. They didn’t have the raised bump sharpeners, or the old school hand cranks with the raised ridges..
Photos here of all of the above..
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I’m always thinking of ways to do things differently, or homemade, or home-grown.. This past summer I did a first round of homemade vegetative watercolors, using vegetables, fruits & berries, spices, and flowers.. The big take-away from that is to avoid anything with a sugar content, or at least don’t cook and concentrate the liquid, as it turns the sugar into a sticky syrup type situation.. Lol.. Some of my paintings were sticky, but cured over time actually, so they were no longer sticky; (and funny thing, the other day I simmered a pot of water for several hours, my apartment got humid, and those two paintings became sticky again, and on one of them, the paint started to run a bit, in a couple spots.. Lol.. Fun effect.. but they dried out again too)..
And I still continue to have lots of ideas on how to make such extracts, not just with salt preservation, but with vinegar and alcohol extraction as well.. Just depends on the plant material really and how the pigments are soluble..
Another thing I’ve considered is making paints with clay or flour, so that they’d not be watery watercolors, but more like acrylic paints out of a bottle, much thicker.. Found a basic recipe for flour paint preserved with salt.. And found general instructions for Bentonite clay paint (which would’ve been easy enough to figure out, really).. A good recommendation there is adding something sticky such as white flour (glutenous) for binding to paper or canvas, and I’m thinking also rice flour, or sweet rice flour.. One of the recommendations is to use Borax for preservation, but I’d just do salt in the clay paint as well..
As far as pigments go, I’d never use artificial dyes, like food coloring, but rather veggie and fruit juices, or spices.. in which case, preservation is essential.. And the water content in the recipe would be the veggie juice or extracts.. and powdered spices could be part of the dry mix.. (Turmeric!).. Other things that are good ones are black coffee or black tea or matcha tea as the mixing water, or Balsamic vinegar (good one!)..
I got to thinking of all this while contemplating traditional oil paint production with crushed rocks, such as Lapis Lazuli to produce blue, or snail shells to produce purple.. I’m wondering what readily-available minerals, and rocks, and stones could be crushed with a big rock into a powder and added to a clay paint concoction.. That would take some grinding.. (what’s that traditional stone-on-stone grinder called in Mexico??).. but softer materials like colored clays, much easier.. And also thinking about things like dried red & orange autumn leaves ground into a powder, for pigmentation.. those sorts of things.. so many possibilities.. Sounds like an absolutely big fun experimentation situation..
Also, came across some videos on making clay-based paints for painting walls and natural homes, but such things will end up in the Homesteading group..
In the meantime, homemade clay/flour paint videos are ridiculous, and so just attaching a couple screenshots here, just as reference..
You got some ideas about all this??.. How about pigmentation ideas??..
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