Design Media: Ink & String

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"You can also play around with string. What you do is you pour some ink or some black poster paint. Black poster paint is fine, some sort of, it won't, it can't be nylon string or plastic string. It has to be you know, a, a natural string and you want it to be soaked. And then what you're going to do is just lay it on your paper or your board. Board is probably better for this than paper, going to lift it up, respond to it. Say "Well gee, you know, now I'm going to do this" This is sort of like a different way to do a scribble drawing. It works well with a high contrast, you can also again, you know paint, use a color you know it doesn't have to be black of course. But black and white we're going to try what happens if, I'm going to use this to press it down, what happens if I clump it up. So you can get thicknesses, you don't have to stay with just the thin, the thin piece and you might decide you need something down in this corner. So I'm just using a scrap piece of, of brown paper so that I don't get these finger print, finger marks that I was getting and you pick it up and this is just called free form with string, it can be a start. You might want to start going in then with pastel, pastels or maybe paints and you know, starting a, just a color design or you know, I keep seeing you know doing a lot of different shapes of paper in these string designs. And then building up a big collage so you know again it's a fun if messy way to spend an afternoon. It's certainly cheap, you don't need to buy a brush or anything."