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've re-arranged my sketches from this trip several times - thinking about how to share them, and I think this batch is a series of sketches that will tell you one thing only: I love color, and these all are mad attempts to show you how happy it made me to be in the middle of so much of it on this trip!
These sketches are direct gouache with some underpainting done with a large acrylic marker, texture added with the distress crayons, and some lines added in pen or pencil. Details on the tools that I took with me are in a separate post - see below.
September is here and with it a new school year! This means it is time to update plans, revise schedules, see what might fit before the year is over - and don't forget to eat apples! (I just found an amazingly fragrant variety of apple which I knew from my childhood in Ukraine and they are all over my kitchen table, computer table, drawing table - see below? The light yellow-green apple is the one! (the other one is also very good - Cosmic Crisp).
Things mentioned above:
Apples Білий налив - I found an article in Ukrainian and not sure what is the name of this in English.Pentel Sign Pen (Pentel Arts Sign Pen Brush, Black Pigment Ink) - looks like they exist in gray and sepia as well!
Transon Palette (Transon Paint Storage Palette Box 24 Wells Airtight Stay Wet for Watercolor, Gouache, Acrylic and Oil Paint)
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 buy apples at the store and the farmer's markets. People gift me apples. I find them on a street. I visit a friend and pick some right from a tree. I keep some apples on my work table but mostly on the kitchen counter. I hoard them. I hold them. I eat them. I inhale their fragrance. I bake them and with them. I make compote. Apples are everywhere - here are some from my sketchbook! And some pears too :)
Here was the first apple post of this season: A Great Reason to Paint Apples
One of the simplest baking projects I know - and one of the easiest to experiment with :)
