Summary: Glue is used as a design texture by drawing with it as paint. Use glue as a design media with tips from an artist in this free design video.
Gretchen Kibbe is an artist and part-time faculty member at Appalachian State University. She worked as a scenic artist on the Spike Lee movie School Daze.read more
"K there's actually a lot of things you can do with, with white glue. Your basic Elmer's glue of some variety and ink as a surface, again you're going to need to use a board for this not a piece of paper because you need the extra support and this is the finished product. You start by dribbling glue on the surface and I've already done that and let it dry. It takes a long time for this to dry, it sometimes, and depending on the humidity it can take you, you know, most of the day. So this is something that you kind of have to do in two steps so I dribbled on glue, this, I didn't do this one to randomly. Once I started the first one I started working around and I decided well I didn't want just scribbles I wanted some, some bigger areas but this is what you, you end up with. What you do once the glue is dry is you have a nice big brush again it should, you know a chip brush is fine you don't want a you know, use a good brush for this. And you're just going to brush ink across this and you want to get it pretty much everywhere you can. So you want to get an even coat and this particular board is like soaking up ink like nobody’s business so it's going to take me a little bit to do this. And you can see though already that obviously you know, this is about creating a relief. There's a relief issue here and there is actually one other thing you can do with this but we're going to just work with this part right now, this is really pretty simple. Again I remind you that you can always use a different color of ink for this, you can probably also use poster paint, tempra paint you know that it, for children but you do need the board."