The other night I attended an excellent presentation at the Evergreen Artist Association given by Peggy Morgan Stenmark where she demonstrated her ink reduction techniques. Now, I’m a digital artist so one might ask, to what value was the demonstration? I actually found it to be of great value as I’m going to show below.
Some of my art has a distinctly watercolor look. Now I do some edging in my pieces, I normally keep that edging subtle. For example, below is a piece I did a couple of weeks ago.
Now Peggy’s reduction techniques hugely stress black ink edgings. I was afraid to go in that direction but after I saw her work and technique I decided to apply something similar to my digital work. The result is below, and I think it is a better piece.
My point here is that one does not have to be working in the same media as a presenter to learn from them.
Marla
