Drawing & Print Project: Ice Drawing

Today I was introduced to 'ice drawing'; the art of drawing with coloured blocks of ice. We were asked to create various observations of the objects in front of us. This proved very interesting as the rough blocks of ice made a very scratchy sort of texture. 

To make things even more interesting, I experimented with adding soft pastels over the ice drawing whilst still wet. This gave a wonderful pasty effect and is demonstrated in all three images shown. It also worked well for adding more colour depth and texture to the image using both wet and dry materials on the same surface.

I think this method is really great for capturing that childhood-like essence of drawing, especially in this project as the main focus is on toys. However, I do believe that this technique could be interesting to use on portraits or structural sketching. It would be interesting to try this on coloured paper as well for a more dramatic effect.

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