The latest class assignment for Carla Sonheim's
2014: Year of the Fairy Tale requires the use of a credit card as the main paint application tool. Hmm, credit card? Have I been living in a cave? I checked on the internet and it's a well-known technique. Okay, credit card it is.
I was frustrated with desiring to place color just in a specific area
and the only way of applying it was with the uneven line of paint
clinging to the edge of a thin piece of plastic. An imprecise tool? Yes. Did I want to grab a paint brush and be done with it. Yes, please.
We
could use a brush for finishing details and a pen to define the figure. And here is the painting:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaoQ88C46y6rzKmbClxTo13hZAJdQli9A3UMzwaQDc6Nx208Q_0zaWjKi_RWJTtuSdY9apHZqfxkGZhvmhuss7O7qLyR_fIIsRYtKWmi8oZA1CpqrCPDi2Pw2_2WMH6lpUsJl9cgabt3fG/s1600/WMFI_PATP_crdcrd_LO4_wb.jpg) |
Pretty "loose" all things considered :-) |
As Carla said in her video: when she uses a paintbrush, "all looseness is lost" and those words stuck with me - because they're so funny and also because they became a quick mnemonic to remind me that keeping it loose is one of the goals of this assignment.
I'll keep saying it to myself as I work on the second painting... yes, the assignment calls for two :-)