Module 4 - Chapter 5

Drawing with colour

It was great to get out my Derwent Aquatone and Caran D'Ache Prismalo pencils again. This is a medium I have neglected in the past year and having used them again I  to appreciate their potential more. In fact I saw a friend using them on fabric at the week end to great effect. The Inktense is the only colour I have in this range, but my they are intense aren't they.

The first page is revisiting my peas that I did in module 3. I think the colours look a bit paler when scanned than on the page. I have taken liberties with the shadow colour under the peas.

I found it a little tricky not to blend the colours too much on the cat, so had to use the brush fairly dry. I also resorted to stroking a damp brush on the stick and then using it.

I used to take some of these with me if I was out at the beach for the day or somewhere with a chance to sit for a while, I will have to try and get back to doing that. I enjoyed this exercise very much.

Module 4 Chapter 4

Sgraffito
4.4.1
I started off with Crayola glitter crayons as I couldn't lay my hands on the ordinary ones. They are done on slightly shiny card and painted over with black gouache. For some reason they look as though there is no colour under them although I thought it was quite bright.
The larger tree is done with ordinary Crayola chunky ones (eventually found) and the colours again were supposed to be bright but appear quite muted.

The next picture of the sailing boat was done with Neo oil pastels and this time painted over with dark blue, it is done on paper which although I thought it was smooth, perhaps wasn't smooth enough.  I'm not at all pleased with it. I did another again on paper with paler paint on top which was so horrible it is in the bin.

Back to fat crayons and my slightly shiny card. The colours are weird for a cat, but at least I like him better and the pear is sort of OK.  But all of them even though they have been left for ages are dirty to handle, both paper and card with the paint coming off.  Is this normal and do they have to be fixed?

I quite liked the medium by the time I had finished but it is a pest if it has to be coated afterwards.