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The following images came out of my quick write activity. You can probably see influences of the quick write in the GIMP images I played with too.

I created an image of a stomach as a visual representation of the jittery feeling I get in my gut when I feel anxious or stressed… Subsequently, I didn’t experience an of that in the creation of this piece 🙂 It’s a very pleasant process.

This is a form of stenciling. I haven’t done much research on the matter but I heard once that it is a technique used by certain Inuit Nations. In the process, you cut a stencil and colour around the outside of it with. In my example, I used chalk pastel but I have also used  oil pastel. Other alternatives would be conte, charcoal, or any other smudgable substance.

This is the final image. Can you guess how it’s made?

Stencils are cut first. Then you colour around the edges of the stencil. Place it on your paper and smudge inwards so that residue from your drawing implement smudges onto the paper. In this example I used the negative space stencil but you can also use the positive stencil and rub outwards. W word of caution: Be careful about the underside of your stencils. Sometimes they get messy and it can transfer to your good paper if you aren’t careful.