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RE: Graphite Artifact-Mechatree - Worn out colouring experiment + video
Experimentation is very important, without it, there would be no progress or invention. There is an artist here who started experimenting with toner ink powders and found a way of bonding it to canvas, where it would usually brush off at the slightest touch. You never know when playing around may turn into a discovery.
Oh yes, agreed !
Experimentation is what makes me look further into any discipline : testing, failing, observing and trying to get that little shiny gem that pops out of failure's dust :D
The mark of a great artist is the ability to reproduce the gem from failures dust and therein lies the importance of documenting what and how you do things
Documenting... That's something I didn't really think about until recently : when I realized I was totally unable to explain anything about painting or drawing to my own daughters...
Hence my recent attempts at sharing these bits of experience I've managed to explain verbally to myself. :D
That's what having kids is for, to remind you that those answers will be asked What and How and then of coarse do it again