What new mediums can I try, I'm bored of painting and drawing?

Question

All I ever use is Acrylic paints, charcoal and markers, or pencil or ink. I want to do something differnt, I wanted to know some other creative stuff I could do or try. Such as oil pastels, or mixxing drawings of ink, with paint around them. Can you give me some ideas of what to use? What could I use to draw on black paper too?

Answer 1

I was pleasantly surprised to find that I really enjoy watercolors when i took a watercolor class winter quarter. You can easily incorporate colored inks into a watercolor painting as well--I suggest getting a pen-and-ink set if you don't already have one.

White charcoal and colored pencil are neat for dark-colored paper.

What about 3-D media? You could try plaster, clay, or wood.

Answer 2

you can try to make your own inks or mix your own pigments.
You could use a lot of different things to provide texture: oatflakes, noodles, sand, washers, wood shavings, metal filings, the list is limited only by your ingenuity. You can use wax to paint with or to provide texture.
You can incorporate images (from newspapers, magazines, photographs, your own old drawings. the x-ray your dentist did of your teeth, pieces of fabric...) into your drawings/paintings.
You can incorporate other objects (brushes, leaves, razor blades, things you can iron/press halfway flat).
you can crumple your paper before you draw on it
pastels work very well with colored papers, including black.
And that's only a fraction I can come up with. You need to sit down and brain storm. Play and explore.
But you most definitely need to visit local galleries (not big art museums) for getting more ideas. Make a habit out of it. If there is a local art school, it is probably fine if you walk around the studio spaces and look what other people come up with, some have extra open house days for that.

Answer 3

You could use some of your paintings and drawings in a collage. You could also layer different papers or leaves or fabrics. White ink works great on black paper. The brand my husband uses is Deleter. He orders it on-line somewhere. He is a cartoonist.

Answer 4

You can spice up your work by mixing things like sand, vinyl concrete patch, dirt, crushed nut shells, bark, twigs, newspaper...anything to add texture and create areas of new interest. I have used moustraps, model cars, computer parts, CDs, drywall compound, drywall tape (fibreglass), rags, newsprint...then painted over or left exposed some or all of it. Glue it down with matte medium, Elmers, or Gorilla Glue. Gorilla glue is great to squirt onto the surface, then lightly spray with water...it will foam in a while and harden into great raised lines that can be gessoed and painted. Reply and I will send you a link for an example.

Answer 5

You can try pastels, with or without inked areas behind them. You could try using oil pastels as a resist, then painting or inking over them.

Answer 6

Why haven't you tried oil painting? It's completely different from acrylic (well, except that it's still paint).

Answer 7

Scupture?

Answer 8

what is really cool is airbrushing you need like the airbrush and either cans of air or a generator but its fun, i think of it like painitng but wiht the control of a pencil.

Answer 9

learn to use photoshop and a digital camera. a creative person can do anything they imagine using photoshop. photomanip art is the next artistic movement.

Answer 10

blood on canvas painting i saw it on some tv program but i dont remember how its done or in what country heck it might be illegal in the us,, im not sure