{"id":157,"date":"2007-10-08T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2007-10-08T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:25:00","slug":"gandhi-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/08\/gandhi-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The assignment was to draw two public icons: one you love, and one you hate. We were to communicate our love and our hate in our choice of mark-marking, colors, pose, etc. I chose Gandhi for the public icon I love; I won’t be showing the “other” public icon. I will<\/span> say that she appears regularly on Fox News, and has expressed the sentiment that women should be armed but not allowed to vote, since they have “no capacity to understand how money is earned.” That’s enough of a hint, I think.<\/p>\n

I had more trouble figuring out what to do about Gandhi, because I cared about whether I would like the outcome. I did an acrylic ink wash to start. Then I poured some acrylic matte medium into a squeeze bottle and drew the lines. I had planned to use composite (a.k.a fake) gold leaf on the matte medium lines, but it turned out that only 23K gold leaf would actually stick to the lines. Aargh! I gilded the outline of his head and did some other lines. The rest of the lines I overpainted<\/span> in Schmincke pearl gold gouache. I am nothing if not persistent. If you click on the thumbnail for a closer look, you can see the two colors of gold. I think it’s more obvious in the photo than in real life. The reason I gilded the outline was so that I could wash the outer world in a muddy outer-world color (which I also used on the other icon in a similar way for a different reason) without disturbing the outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The assignment was to draw two public icons: one you love, and one you hate. We were to communicate our love and our hate in our choice of mark-marking, colors, pose, etc. I chose Gandhi for the public icon I love; I won’t be showing the “other” public icon. I will say that she appears … <\/p>\n

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