NedL
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Ai -- that space duck is pretty funny. Great sketch of it. The glass pieces are neat, and your sketches catch those luminous colors!
Fletch -- that's neat that you remember it being called a Stillson. The article I found said they were known as "stillsons" for a long time, even after other companies starting making them. Then "pipe wrench" eventually took over, which is all I ever knew. I was admiring the colors in Joan's "Andrew Family Farm" and then she mentioned using layers. I haven't really tried layers yet, which might be why the visual journal seems to work okay for me. Sometimes I put a darker color within a lighter one, but not a lot. I have noticed that if it gets too wet it curls, but it seems to flatten again after the book has been closed for a while.
Jade -- I like your colored pencil bird! Thanks for your nice comment!
Vivien -- I'm glad to see your sketches even if they were from the last hunt! Nice lines on the milk bottle. Rain due here in the Pacific Northwest of the US tomorrow night, then on and off all week.
Pine Cone -- That part of the clouds looks great. You caught the part that caught your notice! I think that's an important part of what makes sketches "ours". I get frustrated by clouds too... like animals they move and I'm too slow to draw them. Sometimes the light on things changes too... and all the shadows change!
Joan -- great Oyster Bay sketches. I like the colors in the one with the canon. Also wow on the background trees behind the house. The "bait for sale" made me chuckle. My kind of place.
I was out fishing today in my little boat and am pretty tired now. Don't think I'm going to try to sketch this evening.
Fletch -- that's neat that you remember it being called a Stillson. The article I found said they were known as "stillsons" for a long time, even after other companies starting making them. Then "pipe wrench" eventually took over, which is all I ever knew. I was admiring the colors in Joan's "Andrew Family Farm" and then she mentioned using layers. I haven't really tried layers yet, which might be why the visual journal seems to work okay for me. Sometimes I put a darker color within a lighter one, but not a lot. I have noticed that if it gets too wet it curls, but it seems to flatten again after the book has been closed for a while.
Jade -- I like your colored pencil bird! Thanks for your nice comment!
Vivien -- I'm glad to see your sketches even if they were from the last hunt! Nice lines on the milk bottle. Rain due here in the Pacific Northwest of the US tomorrow night, then on and off all week.
Pine Cone -- That part of the clouds looks great. You caught the part that caught your notice! I think that's an important part of what makes sketches "ours". I get frustrated by clouds too... like animals they move and I'm too slow to draw them. Sometimes the light on things changes too... and all the shadows change!
Joan -- great Oyster Bay sketches. I like the colors in the one with the canon. Also wow on the background trees behind the house. The "bait for sale" made me chuckle. My kind of place.
I was out fishing today in my little boat and am pretty tired now. Don't think I'm going to try to sketch this evening.
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. Canon has to be a very unique easel. I could never paint frying eggs; at speed I work the would be crispy and the pan burnt. Nice work.
I was going to go back and see if that was a continuous line sketch before I started. If yours was a continuous line, I was going to try one too. Then I got my items together and forgot. I like your colors too. Now I wish I'd looked again because it might have reminded me to try simplify my colors more. You'll see what I mean in the next post. I hope you have a wonderful trip.
