{"id":4891,"date":"2013-10-20T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistswindow.com\/new\/?p=4891"},"modified":"2013-10-20T11:29:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T09:29:29","slug":"wrong-handed-drawing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wrong-handed-drawing-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-Handed-Drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite techniques for quietening down my pesky inner-critic and getting into a quietened state for drawing, is to do some warm ups with my non-dominant hand….<\/p>\n

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To help overcome the inevitable ‘fear of the blank canvas<\/em>‘ syndrome, I use a big, fat, black, marker pen. The wall of Koroni castle, above (did you recognise it?!) was drawn with such a pen, straight onto a pad of pages ripped from an old Greek phone book. Working on non-expensive, or non-precious paper also helps to free you up.<\/p>\n

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I’ve added these two left-handed drawings to my sketchbook – pasting liberally, back and front, with matte medium. You could leave it at that….but I decided to ‘knock back’ the text a little, with a light coating of dilute, white gesso…<\/p>\n

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I then worked into the gesso a bit, with a rubber-tipped drawing tool, before finally adding a dilute watercolour wash.<\/p>\n

I’d recommend this activity for those days when you’re feeling artistically uninspired, to get you in the mood for creative pursuits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite techniques for quietening down my pesky inner-critic and getting into a quietened state for drawing, is to do some warm ups with my non-dominant hand…. To help overcome the inevitable ‘fear of the blank canvas‘ syndrome, I use a big, fat, black, marker pen. The wall of Koroni castle, above (did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}