I like to learn different forms of techniques to represented in many ways. I think, as an artist, we shouldn't trapped in just 1 or 2 ways. By mastering differents of techniques, we can express more, as some feelings inside, ideas, or whatever it is, may be displayed with more intense on some media, while in others it seen as 'nothing special'. That's why i'm keep on learning more.
One of the technique is dry-brush. We can do it eather with watercolours or oil colours. The key of this, as it's named, do it with dry (or almost dry) condition. If it's watercolours, keeps our paints away from water. But if oil paints, we can mix it with just a little-bit of medium, but keep it in 'almost dry' condition. Too much medium will ruin our artworks as it painted on paper surface. Some artist do it without mixing any medium. Try to practicing with different methots.
Let's see some of artworks below. Portraits below are painted with dry brush technique with oil-colours on paper.
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| 'A Child' - Oil Colours On Paper Hari Froyo - 2011 |
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| 'Monica & Jesson' - Oil Colours On Paper Hari Froyo - 2011 |
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| 'Roborovski Hamster - Oil Colours On Paper (A3) Hari Froyo - 2011 |
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| 'Nurdin Basirun (Karimun's Regent) - Oil Colours On Paper Hari Froyo - 2011 |
The second artworks (black & white) is using just only black colour to represented 'charcoal effect'. Some artist maybe think that pencils & charcoals are too dusty as it sometimes leave smudges on our artworks. This dry-brush techniques also solve this problem.
I knew this dry-brush technique from my friend, Fillardy Adzani (thanks so much, bro), when he shared a link about a dry-brush painter from Russia, Igor Kazarin. You can visit his site at Igor Kazarin's site to view his artworks.
For tips & tricks about dry brush, please visit the upcoming post at Dry Brush Techniques : Oil Colours On Paper (Part-2).
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