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| Colored pencil on a clue-green mat board. I started with white and did a value study first. Then I added the color. I used peacock blue, aquamarine, white, spanish orange, peach, black, burnt ochre, coppenhagen blue. I work in light layers building the color and value. I press hard towards the end if needed. I work on the whole piece building it up. In class I work in smaller areas for demonstration purposes. |
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| Mixed media on watercolor paper. We used Winsor & Newton cold press 140 lb., but I use many brands, sometimes hot press and sometimes 300 pound. This was taken with a different camera in different light than the next photo so there will be variations in color and value. This was the piece after I had done the watercolor background (wet the paper, did some sanding with watercolor pencils and dropped in some salt - see texture handout for more instructions). Then I started working on values with pen & ink - both a white and black pen using scumbling and pointillism/stippling. I could finish this with the pen&ink at this point and not add colored pencil as it's a nice piece. |
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| This has more pen&ink and some colored pencil. So far I have used white, terra cotta, black, scarlet lake, peach, true blue. I may add more color and definitely need more values/contrast and details. But it's coming along. For this mixed media I did watercolor first, pen & ink second and colored pencil last. |