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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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The picture is so wonderful and I really like the way it is sectioned; roughly into thirds.
I did a little bit of research about the silver point work and where to find the supplies. It sounds incredibly fun!
So, thank you for the info.
So glad you posted about that artist.. his stuff is amazing. Your piece here makes me want to try silverpoint. Does it look very different from graphite? Were you able to acquire it from an art supply store, or somewhere else?
(and if watercolor paper worked well except for the texture, I recommend using hot press watercolor paper, it's all I use because the texture of cold press really does mess with detail)
You totally should try it. I bought a 5 cm stick of 0.5mm silver wire for 1.58 GBP (~2.00 dollars) over the internet (London) and had a mechanical pencil ready for it (I shaped the end with very fine sand paper). I also had the zinc white gouache already. I really should have primed some Arches HP but I thought it would be useful to use an old piece of watercolour I had already stretched as I was practising ... That's me being lazy and not wanting to use expensive paper for a project I really hadn't worked out properly! I have now stretched some Arches HP so that will be my next project
You can buy acrylic based primer and I'm experimenting with a bone ash primer I bought from the same place as the silver ... This is a really useful site, especially if you are in the USA
The silver wire hardly disappears ... this is going to make many drawings! It is a fun project indeed!