As my Port Macquarie trip sketches are going to take a few weeks to scan and publish, I will intersperse them with my ‘back home’ everyday sketching.
Here are a few of my sketches from last week, during which I continued to explore ways of using Poscas. I’m smudging, adding water to them, and combining them with Neocolors. I don’t think I touched my watercolour palette for any of these sketches.
It was fun to let my niece use them on a page too – and the pastel colours are particularly yummy!
I’m loving the matt opaque colour and that my Alpha sketchbook pages are lying totally flat!
It’s so much fun to explore new media – it certainly makes everyday sketching more interesting!
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Hi Liz, I’ve been a huge fan of your work for a while and I’ve grown to love the Stillman and Birn Alpha sketchbooks because of your work with them they’re so versatile! I live in humid Florida, and I have had a few issues with them over the years and wanted to ask if you have ever experienced the sizing on the paper going bad. I have read that humidity can cause the sizing to breakdown but I love to take my sketchbook out and about with me. I know that I can get some sizing fluid to restore the sizing, but I was just curious to know if you have had any issues with the paper, like splotchy paint absorption with areas that won’t allow paint, or white/grey specks appearing on the paper, Thanks!
Hi Julia, Sorry to read of your problems with the paper. I haven’t had any problems like that with Alpha to date but I haven’t used it in super humid weather very often. Our humid days wouldn’t compare with yours!
Dear Liz,
I enjoy your sketching very much .All your sketching look realistic. Finding to read your a bit difficult though.
Love the Bible quote too.
God Bless,
Esther
Liz, I have some Posca pens, but don’t use them often because they tend to splatter and leave globs/blobs of paint when I try to use them. How did you begin incorporating them in your work? And do you just mix water in when you apply the colors? Don’t know quite how to describe my question.
Thank you. Lynn
I also have Caran D’ Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle crayons. But don’t use them much either. Think they’ll smear or rub off? How do you include those and how do you keep them from rubbing off/smearing? Again, thank you.
Hi Lynn – I have cards that I place between the pages
THey are a bit patchy to use – I just started using them and learnt as I went. You can see this process in the first two days of my Port Macquarie trip https://www.lizsteel.com/porttrip2024-the-first-two-days/
Thank you, Liz. I think I’ll just get them out and go for it. See what happens. I appreciate your sharing your journey with us.
I’m really loving the use of color in these, along with the opacity. So great to see how these mixed media are working!
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