Who said, "You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?" This past week I have had several opportunities to watch several artists at work on YouTube. What an amazing tool we have at our fingertips. If I had this available to me when I was younger there is no telling how much further along my art skills would be. Oh well, if there is one thing I do know, you can't roll back time so making changes to ones past is not an option. None of has have a guarantee of tomorrow. That leaves us only with today in our control. So today, I am going to embrace my opportunity to practice more with drawing textures and YouTube will be my amazing go to resource.
First artist- I want to share with you is Lisa Clough of
Lachri.com. I've only begun to touch the surface of the vast amount of information she has made available on her website via free YouTube tutorials. I'm very interested in working on her oil over acrylic techniques.
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| Color Pencil practice exercises added to my sketch journal |
Second artist- I have found a wonderful color pencil artist named Sheldene Visagie at
http://www.sheldenefineart.com/ . She has a great technique and I have learned a number of things about color pencils just by watching her YouTube tutorials. I worked on several of her blending practice videos and here are my results. I realized that with the exercise that she had several shades of Prismacolor blue pencils that I don't have in my limited sets. I made due but felt that I had to use shades that were not really related and had to work hard to get them to have a continuous blended effect. The blended color wheel was also and excellent practice exercise that I highly recommend.
A few months ago I bought a set of what I thought would be 96 Prismacolor pencils but turned out to actually be more like 72 colors because the set included 12 verithin pencils and 12 watercolor pencils so it wasn't actually what I thought I was buying. So I just placed an Amazon order for the largest set, 150 pencils and they arrived just today. I'm SO excited to start using them. First though, I am going to make a color reference chart that I can use when trying to match a particular color. That will probably be a future blog. What made this purchase even more exciting was that during the few days that I had them in my shopping cart the price dropped like $10 to only $89 on Amazon Prime. Down the road I might invest in a set of Faber Castell Polychromos pencils but right now I'm pretty happy with the wax based pencils.
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| Fun Practice Exercise for working on different textures. |
This week I have also been playing around with textures in drawing. When you are teaching a basic drawing class each week you have to stay one up on your students and I thought that texture was a good lesson for week 5 of my after school art club I'm teaching so I started with these fun little exercises. I think they look pretty awesome and I love how it works to use the fingers of my hand to demonstrate the different textures.
A few months ago I bought a set of what I thought would be 96 Prismacolor pencils but turned out to actually be more like 72 colors because the set included 12 verithin pencils and 12 watercolor pencils so it wasn't actually what I thought I was buying. So I just placed an Amazon order for the largest set, 150 pencils and they arrived just today. I'm SO excited to start using them. First though, I am going to make a color reference chart that I can use when trying to match a particular color. That will probably be a future blog. What made this purchase even more exciting was that during the few days that I had them in my shopping cart the price dropped like $10 to only $89 on Amazon Prime. Down the road I might invest in a set of Faber Castell Polychromos pencils but right now I'm pretty happy with the wax based pencils.
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