M5 Ch9 Crowds 2

A5.9.1.  Gallery.  Here's a collection of pictures and photos of mine to show different kinds of crowds and different occasions.  It took me ages to do, it's easy when the photos are in the same folder but I wanted to include photos from everywhere.

A5.9.2.  Using stencils and templates.  I decided to go for a Medieval theme after a visit to Berlin and seeing the proverb painting by Pieter Bruegel.  I have always liked his paintings as there is so much going on.  I chose to use the same colours as in the painting.  I picked out 5 of the characters to draw.  Taking them out of context changed what they appeared to be doing as did putting them in different groupings.  That I found really interesting.

 Using the template to cut out figures.  I do like my brown paper bags and I think they work for this.

 Drawing round the template with a wax crayon - one left alone and the other painted with water colour and a pencil crayon with watercolour pencil wash.

 Template and acrylic paint sponged.

I didn't have any printing ink or acrylic paint so decided to buy one tube of each to try.  My local shop only had water based printing ink so I bought a tube of that and a tube of oil paint.  The lady in the shop suggested a tube of (?) to make it better for printing but I declined when I saw the price as I'm only experimenting.  I was glad I did.  This first picture was made using the ink and the stencils which were then rubbed on the paper to make the inverse image.

 A5.9.3.  Monoprinting
Method 1. I tried various media for this but found quick drying ones too quick however small an area I did as the paint had to be thinly spread.  I liked fabric paints best so this is what I have used here.  (The special lightener made the paint to runny, hence the chap with fat legs!)
I then tried my new ink and oil paint.

 Method 2.  Using oil. The top 2 drawings actually worked quite well although they don't show up here. The bottom 2 are oil rubbings after using the template.

 On the computer the ink looks better but certainly doesn't in reality.  This is a mixture of method 2 and rubbings taken afterwards.

 Method 3. I liked this one although again the ink didn't work as well as the oil.  Again a mixture of method 3 and rubbings.  The downside of oil could be the very long drying time.

The laminate when I had finished.

A mixture of templates and stencils - and a rubbing.  Looking at the picture on the computer i think the blue dots should be smaller as they dominate too much so may try again.