‘Wait a minute’ is the name of the 64 Million Artist challenge today. The task involves a ruffle through my collage papers and a chance to show how I create an interesting backgrounds for your sketches.
My favourite collage papers are simple children sugar paper. It is so versatile and plays beautifully against dark ink lines. Packaging paper provides a useful mid tone, while newspapers and text inject some interest to the mix.
I create a lot of backgrounds in my sketchbooks ready for when I go urban sketching. Using watercolour, pastel or gouache you can then add highlights and darks to really make your work shine.
In todays video I will concentrate on background collage so come back for part 2 when I will show you how I use ink to create the sketch on top.
