CPSA Chapter 114 mini workshop, watercolor pencil

This is the photo of the artwork after the Zoom video.  

Keep in mind that the colors and values are not exact.

The rest of the photos are the stages of the parrot after working on it in the additional videos.  I am concentrating on values, light and shadow as well as detail and color.

This shows about how I would crop this.

Some final thoughts.  I have shown you a few ways to apply and use watercolor pencils as well as how to lift, erase, and make textures. There are many other ways to to use them. 

Watercolor pencils can be used 100% dry because they are colored pencils and the solvent is water.

Watercolor pencils can be used as watercolor and applied in a more painterly fashion for the entire process.  This is also true of regular colored pencils if used with solvent.

They can be used as an under drawing/under painting with colored pencil on top.  They can be used in mixed media pieces along with watercolor, pen & ink, and colored pencil.

I hope you enjoy experimenting and find new ways to use them in your work.  They are a fun and versatile medium!

 

CPSA Chapter 114 mini workshop, watercolor pencil

 

This is the parrot from the video.  It's a little past the middle of the process.  I have more values, color, and details to add (and subtract) as well as corrections to make.  The face and eye need a lot of work and then there will be some work on the feathers and the background as well as the beak.

This is the plastic wrap process I showed you in the video, but over a subject rather than just over color.  After finishing the dry layering process I laid out in the post below and demonstrated on the video, I wet the background (very wet), wet the parrot (a little more wet and messy then what we did on the video), and I added more color by sanding the background.  While still wet I laid the plastic wrap on the parrot and background and scrunched it.  Where the plastic touches the paper it will be darker than where the trapped air is located.

This is what it looks like after drying and after the plastic wrap is removed.  This is the point where I will use value and detail to bring the parrot forward from the texture.  It's somewhat similar to what we did in the video.  The difference is deciding what texture to leave and what detail to add.

We could not do this process today on Zoom as this took many hours to dry and a blow dryer does not help (a warm sunny day helps, but we did not have that, lol).

Keep in mind that the color shown here is not exactly the color as it looks in person.  I try to get as close as possible, but it is never exact.

CPSA Chapter 114 mini workshop, watercolor pencil

A warm yellow (W&N Sunflower)

An orange (Orange)

A red orange (Mandarin)

A yellow green (Grass)

A blue green (Lush Green)

A black or another dark (Black)

This is plastic wrap that we are not doing today.

 

AofC Painted Colored Pencil – Speeding up the Process Using a Solvent

 

AofC Painted Colored Pencil – Speeding up the Process Using a Solvent

 

AofC The Best of Both Worlds: Working with Winsor & Newton Studio Collection Colour Pencils and Watercolour Pencils - demo photos

 

AofC The Best of Both Worlds: Working with Winsor & Newton Studio Collection Colour Pencils and Watercolour Pencils

 

AofC - Creating Skin Tones and Layering Color over a Value Drawing - demo photos

 

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AofC - Creating Skin Tones and Layering Color over a Value Drawing

 

Zoom Mixed Media October, 2021

 

I worked on the hair and the highlight part of the hair, I worked on the armpit, lol, I worked on the neck, and I worked on little areas of the skin and shirt.  All the things I did are subtle.

Zoom Mixed Media October, 2021

 

This is how it looked before I worked on it in class today with colored pencil.

This is how it looked at the end of the video.  It is really close to being complete.  I need to do the background and a little more to the hair as well as look it over to fins stuff that isn't working (like getting rid of some of my really dark transfer lines).

I used white, dark umber, pale vermillion, spanish orange, scarlet lake, indigo, black grape.  You may need to adjust or add a few colors to match what your piece needs. 

I added a light layer of black grape to the entire background.  This allowed me to add some dark near her face and the darken a few areas in the background that pulled the eye too much.  I added the light layers using the side of a sharpened pencil, with light pressure.

I also added more black grape to the hair and also added some scarlet lake to the hair.  I did a little work to parts of the skin and the front of the hair.  The light area on the top back part of the hair needs some shaping as does her arm pit and still more work on her neck, it's not quite right yet.  I will repost when I can get to all that and after looking things over and making adjustments.

Zoom Mixed Media October, 2021

 

I have worked more on this with the white and black ink.  I could keep going and finish this with the ink.  If I were going to finish with the ink I would do ink on the background as well and I would continue adjusting the values and detail on the subject, and add more color with watercolor. 

If you enjoy the ink keep in mind that there are colored inks as well.  Those with watercolor are beautiful, a friend and former studio mate of mine from when I lived in Tennessee works that way. 

In the next class we will work with colored pencil to show what the colored pencil can do over the ink and watercolor.