Wednesday 21 November 2012

Milk

 Above my wolfish experiment, below a student (Lee's) work

I was inspired to try milk painting after seeing this, so I spent a night making a wolf picture and then decided to try it out with my class for life drawing today (Tuesday). This was a little ambitious as there were a lot of students and just two irons, but it gave them a flavor of this technique, which is really lovely and reminds me of lithography which I have not had the opportunity to do for some time now. 
Sorry I am jumping around in my posts at the moment as I am still without my computer.

Above my portrait of the model.

5 comments:

  1. janetkershawillustration blogspot.co.uk21 November 2012 at 08:20

    I can't find any written instructions on how to do this. Do you just paint with milk and then iron it afterwards?

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  2. this sounds exciting!
    and like janet
    would like to know the how

    bye!
    Patrice A.

    P.S.
    I could not resist
    you are my screensaver
    flying high with branches
    like wings
    now I hope you are ok
    with that....

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  3. I would like to know thow to do that too!!

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  4. Patrice very happy about that :-D
    Ok in answer to you all Emmel, Patrice and Janet
    you just paint the milk onto paper (we used semi skimmed) I don't know if higher fat content would make a difference.
    Iron with an iron on it's hottest setting (no Steam)
    I built layers up if an ara needed more detail or to be darker then I just repeated the process.

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  5. I've never heard of this before, will definitely give it a try! I love your blog by the way, you post such interesting things and inspire a lot of my art classes and my own work, thanks!

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