Here is a working page from my recent two-week break exploring different ways of combining pencil – both coloured pencil(CP) and watercolour pencil (WCP) – with watercolour. With WCPs the important considerations are how much does the hue/ intensity change between its dry and wet state how much pressure to apply with the pencil vs...
CONTINUE READINGLast week, a number of people asked about what I used to mix the grey greens in my recent blue gum sketches and so I thought it was time for a little update on my colours and my use of the Folio palette by Art Toolkit. A little while ago I published an article...
CONTINUE READINGMy two-week break is coming to an end and in short, it’s been just what I needed! And interestingly it followed the essence of the trip I had planned. My plan was to spend one week doing a mini-road trip driving up the coast of NSW exploring new coastal areas and then one week at...
CONTINUE READINGAnother sketch from before my break… this was done during a catchup with Esther. Every zoom call we sketch a different castle – this time it was Aldourie Castle near Inverness. I decided to start with some loose washes of watercolour that roughly related to the photo. I was alos playing with some plasterboard (drywall)...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been really enjoying using coloured pencils during my break, especially in my Greenwood Journal. It’s so much fun to quickly add some colour (and texture) without having to get paints out or wait for anything to dry. I really know very little about oil-based/wax-based coloured pencils as I’ve almost exclusively used watercolour pencils (WCPs)...
CONTINUE READINGSo I’m close to the end of the first week of my break exploring my Local Government Area and it’s been amazing! So far I’ve been to its perimeters – finding the most northern, southern, western and eastern points – which all have to do with water and bush (Australian for forest). As each one...
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