A 365 day art project… one drawing a day
It’s Ruby’s second chance, she has a brand new family loving her. AND her second chance here in my blog now that I have tried a second drawing… much better job and I’m quite pleased. I don’t want to repost yesterday’s flop (what was I thinking??) but here it is anyway. So you can see why I’m happier today. And why sometimes it is worth doing something more than once.
Best of luck, Ruby!!
Khadi handbound watercolor journal, uniball deluxe micro pen,winsor & newton cotman sketchers pocket watercolor set, Polar Flo 1/4 inch brush.
(links to all supplies provided)
The past few days’ similar quick sketches, using assorted media techniques.
In my last “Artsnacks” package I received two Art Crayons… watercolor crayons!! They are fat and difficult to use for detail, but are also really creamy and fun. Once applied, they don’t smear or feel chalky or waxy, but water can be added for interesting effects. I think these could be really fun on a mixed media journal page.
Here I used watercolor crayons to fill out the background and hair, dipping a wet brush in the crayon to pick up enough to add shading and definition to the face, and highlighted with silver sharpie marker and white gel pen.
Fun and fast for cartooning, too. 🙂 I guess I need a few more colors.
Tomorrow I’ll sketch the same face in pencil.
… perfect for when you are not fully awake.
watercolor pencil, pastel, gel pen, on 100 lb drawing paper
I tried out some Noodler’s Heart of Darkness ink in a fountain pen they include with the bottle on a sort of zentangle-y cow sketch. I ordered it because I thought it was waterproof, or mostly waterproof, and was going to add color… but you can see what happened when I touched water to it. I’ll try letting some dry overnight and see if it still reacts the same way. I like the result, but I wanted a fountain pen I could use for my watercolor sketches. Oh well, back to Staedtler and uniball. They are great, so it’s all good. I just wanted to play around with line width a bit.
In my tiny Stillman & Birn. I did this with a tiny Pilot pen pencil combination I purchased specifically to go in my travel set. It works fine, but the ink isn’t as nice as the uniball pen I normally use.
Just some sketches… I was trying the sketching pencil I got recently, but it wasn’t thin enough for the tiny details.
Yep, that’s my granddaughter! She can push herself now, and is very pleased with that!
I really like these.
I am completely unfamiliar with colored pencils. But it turns out, I like them!! I think I’ll need to play around with these more.
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