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Conte Crayon Journal

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Its been a while since there was any real action on my drawing blog - Sketches on a Bamboo. Mainly due to a combination of procrastination and over commitment in other areas, but I’ve been drawing nonetheless. Not on the Wacom Bamboo Fun, which is I have to confess actual fun, but in scribbles at meetings and a conte crayon journal that I’ve been keeping. A journal helps me collate ideas and experiment without having to produce anything specific.

Step one is to sit in front of the television on the futon after 9pm. Step two is to pull open my conte crayons - a black, a brown, a tan and a white. That’s it. They smear and smudge and by the end of the hour I’m covered from butt to breakfast in black and brown crayon. And voila. Spray with fixative and its done.

a double page view of images from my conte crayon journal

a double page view of images from my conte crayon journal

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