Chapter 1 - The Study of Tone

For this chapter of tonal columns, I used a variety of media, including: charcoal, black ink, black Brusho paints, water soluble markers and crayons, black sugar paper (punched for circles), white tissue paper, and a variety of black, grey and off-white images from a glossy magazine, as well as the sides of a whiskey hip flask for a crayon rubbing! :)

The columns were 7 cms wide and the length of an A4 page.

Sample #1: [left hand side] black charcoal stick
Sample #2: [right-hand side] calligraphy pen

Sample #3: [left-hand side] black ink and a cotton bud
Sample # 4: [tight-hand side] rubbing of side of hip flask with black child's crayon.

Sample #5: [left-hand side] Brusho paint applied with the edge of a credit card
Sample # 6: [right-hand side] water soluble marker, lightly brushed with water#

Sample # 7: [left-hand side] punched circles from black sugar paper
Sample # 8: [right-hand side] black colouring pencil, cross hatching

Sample #9: [left-hand side] black ink applied with scrunched up kitchen roll
Sample #10: [right-hand side] black water soluble crayon, brushed with water

Sample # 11: [left-hand side] black, grey and off-white papers torn from a glossy magazine
Sample # 12: [right-hand side] column painted with black Brusho paint leaving just lower end clear, then stuck torn pieces of tissue paper scattered on top. This column is my mixed media sample.