NCBG Drawing and Painting with Watercolor Pencils, Short Course, Jan. 30, 2021

Step 1- add yellow.  I used a mid yellow ( FC Cadmium Yellow 107) and a cool yellow (FC Light Yellow Glaze 104).  

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  The mid yellow was added on the leaf and the cool yellow was added to the stem and some vein areas.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 2 - more yellow.  I used a warm yellow (FC Dark Chrome Yellow 109).

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 3 - add orange.  I used a orange to add more warmth (FC Dark Cadmium Orange 115). 

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 4 - add red.  I used a warm red (FC Pale Geranium Lake 121).

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 5 add more red.  I added a cool red (FC Magenta 133).

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 6 - add green.  I added a yellow green (FC Light Green 171).  This mostly was added to the stem and some veins and a few other small areas on the leaf.

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 7 - add more green.  I added a muted green (FC Earth Green Yellowish 168).  This mostly was added to the stem.

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 8 - add brown. I added 2 browns, one dark brown (FC Walnut Brown 177) and one orange brown (FC Burnt Ochre 187).  The dark brown was used to add shadows and the orange brown was used mostly to add color 

I shaded the colors using the photo as a guide.  I used the side of a sharpened pencils to lay down the pigment.  I varied the pressure and amount of layers according to how much pigment I wanted to add to each area.

Step 9 - wet the pencil. Using water to wet the pencil on the right half of the leaf and the stem and front leaf so that you can see the difference between the wet and dry pencil.

 

NCBG Drawing and Painting with Watercolor Pencils, Short Course, Jan. 30, 2021

This is the Fall Rhubarb Leaf that I have been working on.  It's almost complete, about 90%.  I'm looking at it often and making small adjustments here and there.  That is my process at the end of a piece.

CPSA DC 114 mini workshop Jan. 9, 2021

This is one of two ways I start these pieces when using a solvent as the under drawing.  For this process I apply the pencil lightly in layers and then dissolve and blend it and then finish with the colored pencil in layers.  

Step one, lightly shade the colored pencil layers.  This layer has a cool red (pomegranate) and a warm yellow (spanish orange).

A reminder that these are photos taken at different times of day, so the color and value are not 100% correct.

Step 2 add more layers, I added a warm red (scarlet lake) and more of the warm yellow and cool red.

I used the Rubbing Alcohol on half so that you can see what that looks like.

I finished the other half with the Rubbing Alcohol.

Using the same colors I added more layers and used the Rubbing Alcohol a second time.

I started on the layers after the solvent using colored pencil to add color, value, and detail.

I started adding a background by adding layers and by painting on and splattering dissolved colored pencil.

I used more colored pencil to add additional details and values.  This is still a work in process.  It will be completed after more color, value, detail, and refining on the mushroom and in the background.

This is colored pencil that has been dissolved/melted by rubbing alcohol.  I do not usually keep it in jars.  I did this for demonstration purposes.

This is one of two ways I start these pieces when using a solvent as the under drawing.  For this process I apply dissolved colored  pencil in layers and then finish with the colored pencil (non dissolved) in layers.

Step one, paint with dissolved colored pencil.  I dissolve the colored pencil in a small container (I use jar lids) with the solvent and tiny grated/sanded colored pencil pieces.  It looks like paint. This layer has a dissolved cool red (pomegranate) and a dissolved warm yellow (spanish orange).

A reminder that these are photos taken at different times of day, so the color and value are not 100% correct.

I added a dissolved warm red (scarlet lake).  This needs a layer or two more and then the process would continue with layers of undissolved colored pencil. And at some point I would add a background.

This is a photo of the entire page.  I signed it, but am still picking at it a bit.  It's mostly done.

This is a close up photo.