Well, Nanna's heart op has been postponed because she's picked up a rash from the surgical soap! A bit nerve racking to say the least.
One of my favourite blogs to sigh over is Draw Doodle and Decorate. Eden Elle is such a talented lady with her drawing. Her latest post is all about coloured pencils and her journey with them. I spoilt myself about 2 years ago and bought myself some Derwent Inktense pencils with a birthday voucher. I am usually an acrylic painter but the adventure into pencils has been such fun!
Because the Inktense pencils are also water soluble, I get the base colour down first then wash it with water. Once dry, I start the layers of pencils keeping then dry.
Protea: My first drawing with my pencils - but silly fool that I am, (at times) I didn't date it...it was autumn of 2011 though.
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| Autumn 2011 |
Sunflower: My favourite drawing! I still can't believe I did this one, which is why I framed it. I finished this in Sept 2011.
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| September 2011 |
Water lily: After the success of the sunflower I started the water lily.
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| November 2011 |
Hibiscus: I needed a break from the A3 format of the other flowers, because fro some reason I always draw flowers and they're always big! This flower was hanging over the fence as I walked to art and I couldn't resist taking a picture and then drawing it.
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| March 2012 |
Daisy: Obviously I couldn't resist drawing big and found this flower on Flickr.
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| July 2012 |
Oom Samie se winkel (Uncle Samie's shop): This drawing is being done with Derwent Graphitint pencils, which were a Christmas present from my lovely hubby. They're also water soluble and are much "duller" in comparison to the Inktense.
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| Work in progress...! |
White-fronted Bee-eater: This is a mixture of both sets of pencils and is my first non-flower drawing!
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| February 2013 |
Unfortunately, my art teacher has put his evening classes on hold for a few months as he's had 2 knee replacements. As a result, I haven't done much drawing lately. The schools are currently on 3 weeks winter holiday and I plan on doing another drawing before school goes back. Tomorrow, I'm off to my favourite shop - Deckle Edge - to spend my birthday vouchers! I'm going to buy some "normal" coloured pencils, as opposed to water soluble ones - and then I'm going to draw!!
Thanks Eden for all the inspiration.
PennyB
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