The blacks are ink, all shades of gray are charcoal including grays over blacks. I hoped for a different result, but it’s just a small sketch, so not a big deal. I will get where I want with the next version.
clouds
A sketch a day: storm
A somewhat failed experiment with charcoal on top of soft pastels – I was aiming for a little different, more dramatic look. Apparently a workable fixative is not capable of holding even a thin amount of pastel in place, and it keeps mixing with charcoal. I wonder what would work better?
A sketch a day: at the beach
A joint effort of Corel Painter Mobile and Art Flow (both Android apps), with Painter carrying out most of it because it is so good at faking oil paints. I don’t like how real oils smell and how messy the entire process is, so digital looks like a nice alternative.
Artist trading card exchange at CAG – fall 2014
As usual, the ATC exchange at CAG today was a lot of fun. Here are my contributions to the event: I love how the fall edition of the ATC exchange happens around my Birthday. This year it’s on a day before, so I got four early Birthday gifts:
After the Rain (miniature)
Here is my newest tiny digital canvas. I haven’t done any for a few months and completely forgot my past experience with colored pencil on this kind of surface. It is a bit slippery and does not allow to build up really dark darks unless you carefully plan for them from the beginning and use […]
Open Space
Sunshine, light clouds, and blue skies – everything our weather at the moment is not. I do not mind misty and rainy one single bit, but somehow it is not what I want to draw. pastel pencil, 5″ x 7″ The original ($140.00), greeting cards, and prints are available in my Pastel Pencil online gallery. […]
A sketch a day: sunset in black and white
A sketch a day: moonlight
Finished “Russian Ridge View”
This is the first work in a series of small landscapes that I plan to do. All places in the series will be from California parks and preserves. The original drawing ($400.00), greeting cards, and prints are available in my online shop as a part of the “Colored Pencil” collection.