INSIGHT & TIPS
Polychrome
Discover expert tips and insights for creating with CMP products. In this section, artists and creatives share their experiences: practical ideas, techniques, tips, and inspiration to enhance each material and make your creative process unique.
Pressure
Pressure modulation
You can create very different strokes by varying the pressure of your hand as you apply the paint. With the same color, you can create light, delicate strokes or bolder, more intense strokes simply by varying the pressure you apply to the paper.
This allows us to control the intensity of the color and create contrasts, tonal transitions and depth within the drawing.
Traits
Exploiting the plaster structure
The structure of the Polychrome allows for various types of color application. For example, we can draw precise and defined lines using an edge of the polychrome chalk, or create broader and softer areas by rubbing the side of the polychrome on the paper.
Leveraging the characteristics of the material to achieve a good diversification of marks and effects allows us to broaden our expressive possibilities and enrich our drawing with different textures and strokes.
Shade
Blend the color
Polychrome pastels lend themselves very well to color blending. After applying the color to the paper, we can blend it with our fingers or with circular motions of the pastel to achieve smooth transitions between color and paper.
Blending allows for the creation of more uniform and delicate surfaces, ideal for creating shadows, colored backgrounds, or softer, more atmospheric effects.
Stratification
Layering colors
Another possibility offered by polychromes is the ability to layer paint. We can start with a light base and then add more colors, thus creating richer, deeper hues.
Layering allows you to obtain interesting chromatic effects and to gradually build up the design, enriching it with variations and shades.
By Valentina Sforzini
My name is Valentina Sforzini, and I'm a painter. Painting is my magnificent obsession: a medium I approach every day with dedication and respect, in the constant pursuit of honesty, authenticity, and purpose. Painting, for me, means building a body of work that is true to my essence, rooted in personal experience and a direct relationship with the subject. I love painting from life, because that's where the encounter arises, and it's from that encounter that my exploration of the human condition takes shape.
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