Fixing Charcoal The No Spray Way! Using a gel plate & experimenting to find alternatives!
I don’t like using fixative sprays!
After watching an Instagram reel and having an ‘ah-ha’ moment, I set off to work out a way to seal charcoal drawings in my sketchbook without the need for smelly fixatives!
Follow my process of using the gel plate to fix and experiments with alternatives you could use if you don’t have a gelli plate.
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These videos are intended to help provide process inspiration for your own creative practice and not as ‘kit craft, copy and make projects’.
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Mentioned in this video
Rachel Davis @racheldavisart.bayarea
https://www.instagram.com/racheldavisart.bayarea/
00:00 Intro
00:26 The story behind
02:05 Looking at old sketchbooks
04:38 My plan
05:05 Drawing with charcoal
06:57 Looking at what else seals dusty media
10:25 Playing with matt medium, gel plate and alternatives
19:03 Experiment results
24:41 Testing the best 3 results
25:30 Summary
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