Re: Line drop technique
Posted by Jeremy Rowntree on April 18, 2000 at 04:52:36:
In Reply to: Re: Carrot results posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on April 17, 2000 at 15:15:44:
: This shows the results I get with variable line quality with the
: carrot bag. I personally (pictorial arts degree speaking here)
don't
: like absolutely even lines. I like the "alive" character of line
: variation and occasional unpredictability. For some people twitchy
: control equals sloppiness .... for me it means the work has more
: vibrance.
Does depend on degree of sloppiness though. I used to have to wipe
off whole sections and start again because not even artistic license
could excuse the randomness I was creating. I couldn't hope to match
the sort of work you show, but I do find I can get results other
people, as well as myself, are happier with when using the bottle.
Of course, it may just be that my general technique is improving. I
might give a carrot bag another go at Sirius and see if this is the
case.
Catherine - do you hold the cone tip close to the skin, or above it?
I've started using an icing sugar style line-drop method to good
effect with the bottle. For those who don't recognise this technique,
start the line in contact with the skin, then lift the tip away a
little as you extrude a line of henna. While keeping a steady flow,
move the tip to guide the henna line to drop down onto the skin where
you want it to. Works great on hands. It's not so good elsewhere
though, as the henna sometimes ends up sitting on the fine surface
hairs instead of touching the skin.
- Re: Line drop technique Catherine Cartwright Jones 09:10:18 4/18/00
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