After my tutorial with Nick I thought I would speak to Neil about fax paper drawing as I have been told he has done this previously. He gave me some fax paper and I have started drawing on it with a soldering iron, heated nails/screws and an iron. I thought that If I could heat up a variety of shapes I could build up a design on the thermal paper- I tried this with some left over wooden shapes (as they get super hot in the heat press and stay hot for a while) but this was unsuccessful. For the fax paper to react, it has to be ridiculously hot and the shapes were just not hot enough. I could possibly create some sort of resist or heat up other objects to transfer onto the paper??

I have experimented drawing from some primary images of walls and graffiti and am really impressed with the results. The roll of paper is quite slim so they dont seem big enough to be a "drawing" but I will convert these onto screens or scan them into use in my digital drawings. I really love how the marks made are unique and are markings that you cannot get with any other technique. I like how you can combine the materials used on the paper, for example I have used thick black markers as well as pencil, coloured posca pens and oil pastels.