Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
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mix your markers and color outside the lines, it’s fun!
Green Love 8 inch x 10 inch canvas board by Darren Daz Cox – Pekin Illinois artist.
This was a random sketch made with two Mr. Sketch scented water color markers, the dark green one has an apple smell and the yellow one has a lemon smell (of course).
The canvas board allows the "juice" from the markers to stay wet longer than if it was on a piece of paper that absorbs the ink. This allows the artist great flexibililty to smudge, smear and mix the two colors. In addition, you can use a stylus to scrape away some ink or a wipe to blend or remove some areas of ink.
You will probably need some hand wipes as your hands will totally turn green as you work on this type of art! There is synergy between these markers because they are so juicy that the dark green merges with the yellow to make a light green and the yellow dissolves the dark green when it’s dry to make a light green. All in all there are countless shades of green to be made! If you are an artist looking to inspire and or motivate yourself then you should try this. If you are a teacher or an art therapist (hello Liz!) you should consider something like this (if you don’t already do so) because it is pleasurable in many levels and teaches that you can ‘color outside the lines’ and sometimes ‘messing something up’ is a good thing and I’ll explain why.
One of the things you learn by doing this is that you have to make the yellow marker ‘dirty’ or mixed with the dark green to have the light green shades. Luckily the bright yellow comes back to full strength after a while but for a time it will be ‘contaminated’ with the more powerful dark green, this is the only way to get the full spectrum of shades and might be upsetting to people with OCD and those who, as the Dead Milkmen sang about, might go to hell if they color outside the lines.
But you have to be messy to do this type of art! yea~!
Below are some lyrics from the mighty, awesome, and forever cool, Dead Milkmen.
You’ve got a methodist coloring book
And you color really well
But don’t color outside the lines
Or God will send you to Hell
‘Cause God hates war
And God hates crime
but he really hates people
Who color outside the lines
You’ve got a methodist coloring book
Don’t color outside the lines
‘Cause if God doesn’t strike you with lightning
He’ll at least make you go blind
Good people get sent to the attic
Bad people will roast in the cellar
But there’s a special kind a’ Hell
For those who just won’t learn to color
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