Artist, writer and presenter Don Conroy demonstrates how to create silhouettes using inks.
On a shiny board, Don Conroy shows his technique for creating a painting of a silhouette. After laying down a background, he adds cormorants using a drawing pen and provides some insightful information about the birds. He encourages viewers to be creative through trial and error and says that accidents can often produce some interesting results. The pen drawings are touched up using a brush to create silhouettes of the cormorants and shadows on the rocks.
Strange things can happen when the ink gets onto the paper.
Don Conroy also has some tips on ways of suggesting rain using a blade to scrape the ink on the surface.
This episode of 'Painting For Fun' was broadcast on 20 January 1987. The presenter is Don Conroy.
'Painting For Fun' was a ten minute programme broadcast each Friday and introduced by Ian Dempsey on Dempsey's Den. The programme features Don Conroy demonstrating the techniques of painting, cartoons and illustrations. The young viewers were encouraged to send in their work and it would be shown.
