Sketching, Illustration, Design and Everyday Life.
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Do you say Colored Pencils or Color Pencils?
I've been thinking about the non-existent difference in these two and how one of these options drives me nuts for quite some time now. All while using color pencils as a part of my mixed media experimentation. Here are two recent sketches that were pure colored pencil were used - without any paints and other materials. I think I would like to keep them here as a record of some ideas that I would like to go back to.
I got to visit an actual apple farm during the East Coast trip and enjoyed some amazing views of the abundance of apple orchards - and collected some apples too. These are: Ginger Gold, William's Pride, Sansa and Dayton (I think :) and they were very very tasty!
I usually need a clean table to work with concentration. But within a few minutes of beginning work, I create an unbelievably layered mess and then I continue adding to it during the day: notes to myself, books, stickers, treasures, sketches done on stray pieces of paper, etc. Then next morning I sort through all sorts of things I find in my work area and add them to the story. Apparently I keep making these posts:
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My sketchbook is populated by little everyday things: standing in line, fixing my pen, enjoying a fig preserve, choosing color palette, conversations with our nonagenarian, eating apples and looking at interesting seed pods.
The other day we had rain - which is incredibly rare - but it smelled heavenly. I wanted to sketch this fragrance, and I am not sure it worked. But there is another smell of the season which I think I got about right (I am eating one of these as I type).
