More roses September 18, 2011

Here’s a drawing on Ingres paper, with pen & ink and colored pencil. It’s always fun to use a colored paper. I also like to draw with ink, it’s so spontaneous because you can’t really make any corrections. Today I will be studying for my upcoming theology exam, and later we’ll go to have dinner [...]

Feather Study November 11, 2010

Here’s a small drawing I just finished yesterday. It’s of a feather I found in the woods, when I was walking there picking pinecones and pretty stones for drawing. I think it’s a magpie feather, might be crow. Anyway, I started this drawing after I recovered from that migraine attack the other day. Having slept most of [...]

Stones in colored pencil September 24, 2010

Here’s some colored pencil work for a change. I wanted to test a new paper, and Prismacolor Lightfast pencils I bought from Ebay. Prismacolors are not available here in my country. The paper is Lana pastel paper, this color is called moonstone, it’s a warm grey with a slightly pink tint. I’m using Derwent Artist pencils on the [...]

Orchids and violets September 14, 2010

Here’s what I’m currently working on. The first one is all oil pastel, and I’m using Colour shapers to make outlines and details. Previously I have only used oil based colored pencils for the detail work. The second one is in oil pastel and colored pencil. It basically has just an underlay in oil pastel, and I’m doing [...]

Feather inspection – finished September 11, 2010

Here’s my finished drawing of Nemo. Not the best image because I had to use a flashlight and it picks up the blue colors. I will take a better photo tomorrow in natural light for my Flickr page.  I’m quite happy with this one. It’s not perfect but it’s way better than my previous portrait of [...]

Progress September 7, 2010

Here’s today’s progress on Nemo: Had a very nice evening while drawing this and listening to Agatha Christie’s “Mysterious Mr. Quinn” on audiobook. It helps so much to have something to listen to while doing slow work. My thoughts on developing my colored pencil drawing: I need to use some harder pencils first and use [...]

Nemo inspecting a feather September 7, 2010

I started working on another small drawing, this one is in colored pencil. It’s my cat Nemo, the one who got his toes messed up. They are quite fine now, he uses them normally, just doesn’t seem to pull in one of the nails entirely.  I started with a line drawing in charcoal pencil and then [...]

Slow Stream October 3, 2009

I have been working on this one for some time now. The small stones are a bit tricky, especially as I have very little experience in drawing stones of any size. I sort of gave up on stones once I ended up with one that looked more like brain matter than a stone. I decided [...]