I repurpose cardboard and use it as a substrate for pastel drawings when my artist block visits.
I was having an artist block and viewed my sketchbooks and canvases as too precious to use. I was packing a box and I ripped off one of the limbs by accident. I took that fold and decided to draw on it. I ended up drawing on slices of cardboard boxes, cut up tampon boxes, and tissue boxes that led to creating uninhibited art.
Perhaps uninhibited is the wrong word when describing subject matter, since they are pretty quaint pieces, nothing too wild, although, now that I wrote that I will be thinking of something wild to draw.
Cardboard usually has beautiful warm brown tones that is perfect for charcoal, soft pastels, hard pastels, or oil pastels. So if you create something you don't care for you can give it to someone but also have the satisfaction of using pastels and beautiful colors spread across the board without worrying about making a piece perfect.
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