RaquelB
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I do hope the sizes are all right! At least they are all 72 dpi...
Croton – I belonged to the Botanical Artists of Canada, which recently folded because no volunteers were found to replace the executive group. Through them I entered almost every exhibition that was organized.
In one of them the Croton merited the Best Pencil Artwork Award.
Adriana – I only produced three portraits to try... Enough for me!
One gifted CP artist at WC guided me to do this portrait of my first daughter. It was in the Western style of Carrie Ballantyne from Wyoming. I made it in Fawn colour Stonehenge paper with only four monochrome colours plus white. The best I learned was that drawing hair implies seeing the locks of it as forms, and shading them accordingly, instead of trying to single every hair out...
Bottles – During a visit to Cape Cod we visited the Glass Museum. Sometimes I start with a graphite version to help me see the values before the colours, and I did that with this.
Catalpa – This was so tempting, living in a neighbourhood where in just a short city block there are about twenty Northern Catalpa trees! The seed pods are close to 60 cm long, so I produced a large drawing, but still not to scale. The beautiful leaves have a size of about half the length of the pods. It merited an Honourable Mention.
Ferns – During a visit to Miami city I was fascinated seeing how using pieces of coral reef they had built up fences. In this one ferns were growing through the nooks and crannies... It was a special project for me after deciding not to use any green, but joyfully mixing yellow and blue pencils!
Parrot Tulip – This is a dear piece for me because working on it I finally learned to burnish colour. My “personal” instructor was Cecile Baird through her inspiring book Painting Light with Colored Pencil... I’ve heard many comments about wax bloom build up, especially using Prismacolor pencils, but honestly I have never experienced it.
Croton – I belonged to the Botanical Artists of Canada, which recently folded because no volunteers were found to replace the executive group. Through them I entered almost every exhibition that was organized.
In one of them the Croton merited the Best Pencil Artwork Award.
Adriana – I only produced three portraits to try... Enough for me!
One gifted CP artist at WC guided me to do this portrait of my first daughter. It was in the Western style of Carrie Ballantyne from Wyoming. I made it in Fawn colour Stonehenge paper with only four monochrome colours plus white. The best I learned was that drawing hair implies seeing the locks of it as forms, and shading them accordingly, instead of trying to single every hair out...
Bottles – During a visit to Cape Cod we visited the Glass Museum. Sometimes I start with a graphite version to help me see the values before the colours, and I did that with this.
Catalpa – This was so tempting, living in a neighbourhood where in just a short city block there are about twenty Northern Catalpa trees! The seed pods are close to 60 cm long, so I produced a large drawing, but still not to scale. The beautiful leaves have a size of about half the length of the pods. It merited an Honourable Mention.
Ferns – During a visit to Miami city I was fascinated seeing how using pieces of coral reef they had built up fences. In this one ferns were growing through the nooks and crannies... It was a special project for me after deciding not to use any green, but joyfully mixing yellow and blue pencils!
Parrot Tulip – This is a dear piece for me because working on it I finally learned to burnish colour. My “personal” instructor was Cecile Baird through her inspiring book Painting Light with Colored Pencil... I’ve heard many comments about wax bloom build up, especially using Prismacolor pencils, but honestly I have never experienced it.
