From Alison’s garden
Posted: July 1, 2025 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bouquet, coloured pencil, flowers, neocolor 12 CommentsHappy Canada Day! I usually choose some red flowers to paint on July 1, but this bouquet from Alison’s garden was just too beautiful to pass up. I can’t name everything that’s in here but it’s exactly the kind of arrangement I love — a little wild looking and different from every angle. Thank you for thinking of me, Alison.
Since I haven’t even unpacked my watercolours yet (lots of garden projects to catch up on at my house), I decided to work in water-soluble pencils. I drew on a sheet of HP paper with a green pencil and then filled in with both coloured pencils and NeoColor sticks from Caran D’Ache. At the end I touched the wet brush to a few areas but mostly it’s just pencil scribbles. And if I have time before the bouquet fades, I may just unpack my palette and try it in watercolour.
These boots
Posted: December 18, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: boots, coloured pencil, inktense, pencil drawing 21 CommentsI wait for these boots to come home every year. Actually I wait for the son who wears them home every year at this time. But having the boots is a wonderful bonus, since they are so beautiful to sketch.
This year I sketched them with Inktense pencils. I was planning on layering the colour and then wetting the pencil marks but since Inktense are very intensely coloured, I was afraid I would lose the subtleties of the creases in the leather, so I left the drawing as is. I drew on hot press Fabriano paper, using mostly crimson, light brown, sea blue, indigo and orange pencils.
