Discuss: What is your favourite medium?
If you could take one drawing medium with you to a desert island, what would it be? Discuss.
(I’m taking a short break while we sort out some family health issues - please do me a favour and get some debate going!).
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under You, Media.
Comments: 19
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Noooooo! I cannot take just one!!!!
I want to live several hundred years just to experiment with all the media I know (and several more for the ones I’m not yet aware of).
You see, I’m not of much help here :D.
Yup! Your art materials will all be removed at customs and you will be handed a random one. Oh dear - let’s hope it’s not something horrible like a luminous marker pen.
:O A luminous marker pen?! Eek!!
I hope we’ll be allowed to exchange mediums with the other inhabitants… yes? :D
(PS. Hope the health issues were nothing serious)
Ooh, an on-island bartering system is born and a new civilisation arises…
Thanks for the thoughts; nothing serious, just time-consuming, thanks!
A black ink pen, cos things I draw with that look so much better than anything else I attempt. Mind you, I’d be stuck without a pencil. Can we assume there is a pencil there already, along with Shakespeare and the Bible?
There might be a seam of graphite if you look hard enough. You could hollow out a twig.
yes I’d take a fine line black ink pen too. Even my handwriting looks ok using one of those so they must be good. I like the look of line drawing anyway, and you could always add colour with smudges of red mud or crushed leaves from the desert island.
My first thought is that it would have to be pencil and paper. Then again, if we’re going to a desert island, it might be more sensible to take something that I could use along with materials that are already there.
Yes, there will be plenty of leaves that you could dry for paper, so, then, you’d want something like an acrylic paint perhaps. Or an ink pen as Jo C suggests above. Possibly you wouldn’t need anything because you could squash mosquitoes and make pigments from their blood?
Am I allowed a solar-powered Apple Laptop with Photoshop CS3?
With Wifi?
If that’s cheating I’d have to ask for a mortar a pestle to crush up different natural minerals and vegetation and make dyes. Then spend the rest of my days making mandalas in the sand.
Cor, that’d keep you busy!
Well, it sounds much better than squashing mosquitoes… ;0)
Ha ha!
Graphite pencils and watercolour pencils.
You could dip ‘em in the sea. Come to think of it, who needs materials. Seaweed collage, here I come.
Pastels.
You’d need paper too - unless you were doing cave drawings. Which could be good.
my favorite medium lately is acrylics. Although I have been getting into colored pencils.
I think acrylics could be interesting and probably most durable of all options discussed, should there be a tropical rainstorm.