Drawing on yuppo with woodless pencils and Lacquer thinner

I experimented with the woodless pencils and lacquer thinner (which I just happen to have, I think other similar solvents, such as mineral spirits will also work.)  This time the pencil did smear nicely, though I still had trouble removing lines all the way to white.   And I once again used a sharpie to get black.  I liked these pencils a lot better than the water-soluble pencil.  The big draw back is the need to use the oil based, smelly solvent, which also dissolved the pen marks.

Now I am going to have to see if this drawing will stay on the yupo and if I can paint acrylic and watercolor on top of it. 

I still like the watercolor pencils best.  Here are the drawings from George Jame’s class.  And some new water-soluble pastels.   I will try them next.

woodless pencils on Yupo

In my new box of pencils, there was a water-soluble woodless pencil and I started with that pencil. This pencil didn’t work as easily as the watercolor pencils.  It took a lot of scrubbing to get back to white. The pencil marks did not smear easily.   It was difficult removing the pencil lines with the water.  I tried rubber paint shapers, paint scrubbers and finally Q-tips, which worked best for going back to white. 

I darkened some areas with a sharpie.

When I hung this drawing on the wall, I could see that the tie is at the wrong angle.  I lifted the pencil lines and the ink with water and re-drew it. Can’t do that on regular paper!

I sprayed the drawing with fixative and glazed it with acrylic.  This sort of up-tight drawing/painting could be better done on paper or canvas, but it is good to know that if I want an up-tight area, it is possible with yupo

My goal is to find a method of drawing on Yupo that I really like.  So far I am voting for the watercolor pencils, but let’s see how the other woodless pencils work.