Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Midweek Photo: Pencil Storage Again
Two things i want to comment on:
You'd think that would be enough for everyday use. No, i've had to move greys and flesh tones to a smaller case. And i resorted them to put only the most used ones in, which works out to mainly the Faber Castell ones, moving out all but one of the Luminance ones and quite a few Derwents.
The amazing thing is how much lighter the case became, substituting narrower-barrelled FC and Lyra Rembrandts for the Coloursoft and Luminance.
Below, i've got a picture of my weirdly bent paperclip on a pencil case zipper. i should remove it, the paperclip. It's a relic of the days when i used primarily Prismacolors.
With the Prismacolors, i sharpened the pencils a lot, going through them quickly. And maybe 25-50 times in a two hour session i would have to use my paperclip to dig pencil parts out of the sharpener.
i don't need to do that any more. Though i do miss the fantastic range of Prismacolors.
Wordless Wednesday: Autum Leaves
"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
John Burroughs
Happy Halloween, 2020 Style
Wordless Wednesday: Cute Kid, Cute Toy, then. . .
Then, years later. . .
Wordless Wednesday: Colorwheels Again
Back at it - this is an exercise that lets me find what my colors can do and work on smoothing the areas i'm on.
The photos are mostly in chronological order, and there are lots of free color wheel diagrams out there. But at the end i will include the links from which i got my predrawn wheels and an article about making your own color wheel in colored pencil.
Wordless Wednesday: from fellow blogger Kathy Barbro
i've started keeping a sketchbook by the computer. i don't do the grid lines like she does, but dash these off in a few minutes. You don't need any "talent" to make a nice one of these! Her recommended time for a classroom of kids working on this is 45 minutes. See https://artprojectsforkids.org/how-draw-statue-liberty/
Midweek Photo:Some of Grandad's Art
Wordless Wednesday: Vacation, 2000
We went to Wisconsin Dells in early August.
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| the only time we ever stayed at a hotel/resort with both a pool AND a beach |
Midweek Photos: Remembering Normal Walking
It hurt a lot then, but took awhile to catch up to me.
Last fall, i had one total knee replacement (TKR), and last month, i had the other.
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Using a Coloring Book to Practice Skills
Seems maybe a bit silly to spend so much time with predrawn images, but i look at it as developing one skill which will transfer to another, to be worked on at another time.
Anyway, i'm consciously thinking of these pages as a way to work on my skin tones. Nowhere near where i want to be yet, but maybe a bit closer.
i've always had a big problem with
Midweek Photo: to the left of my desk
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| Left: My father in law with his clarinet, and my dad, home on leave, with various medals and patches from his WWII service |
Wordless Wednesday: Compare
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| From our 2008, 9day wonder, trip to Hawaii. The right image is a photo of Ka'paa in Kohala, while the left is a picture i did in art class in watercolor pencil. Looking at them this week, it seems that i have too much emphasis on the foreground in the colored pencil one. What do you think? |
Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: A Happy Kid?
Wordless Wednesday: Iris in Bloom, after the rain
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| This one seems to have ice in the raindrops in its standard |
Interesting link with parts of an iris: https://www.leonineiris.com/l9ie_partsoftheirisflower.php
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