Colored Pencils

Hi, and welcome to my blog. Our weekly art sessions have been going strong for the last seven weeks and are now winding down for the summer - our last session is this week. The girls have created lots of wonderful pieces, and I will be posting them over the next few months.

In the meantime, I have completed two colored pencil projects that I want to show you.

The first was designed by Gemma Gylling called Yorkie. The picture was done on 5 x 8 suede board, which was a new surface for me to work on. I found working on suede to be very interesting - it takes lots of layers of pencil, so you can build the hair and make it look very fluffy and realistic. With the suede surface you also end up with a wonderful background without doing anything! Sometimes with colored pencils, creating a background can be rather challenging, so it was great to have the background already there. I liked working on the suede, and plan to use it for more projects in the future.


This project is called Western Meadowlark and was designed by Sherry Nelson - the entire project can be found in her book called Painting Songbirds. The instructions in the book are for oil paints. I converted everything to colored pencils and completed the piece on 8 x 10 wave green mi-teintes paper. I really enjoyed doing this project - the butterfly and grasshopper were a bit of a challenge, but, I was happy with the final result.

I am now getting my summer projects ready to take over to my cottage, so I can work on them over there. I plan to complete projects in pen & ink and colored pencil, and I will also be doing some Christmas ornaments - fall will be here before we know it, and that is when we all start working on our Christmas stuff!

That's it for now - please check back in a few weeks when I will post some wonderful art completed by the girls in our art sessions.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Joan

Weekly Art Sessions

Hi:

Well, things are finally getting back to normal here - I spent the month of March in Florida, and, needless to say, there was no artwork accomplished while I was there....too many other interesting and different things to do! Our weekly art sessions started in early April and will run until the end of May. We have been very busy inking, rouging, oil painting and using coloured pencils. The following pieces were completed by the girls in our art sessions, and I would like to share them with you. I hope you enjoy them.


I think this piece is wonderful. Sue did this project on 8 x 10 grey suede board using coloured pencils. The piece is called Red Hat Cat (which is rather appropriate!), and was designed by Tina Norris. It did not take long for Sue to complete the picture - she started it about 6:30 p.m. and was finished about 9 p.m. She added a sparkly pin and some feathers, and ended up with an adorable piece.



This project was designed by Mary Owens and is called Do You See What I See? Cecile inked this on 11 x 14 canvas and then used the oil rouging technique to add colour. When you are using this technique and creating snow on white canvas, the canvas itself becomes the snow, and all that is needed is the creation of shadows using some payne's grey or indigo. This was only Cecile's second pen & ink project - she has now started her third. I love this piece!


Nancy completed this Bengal Tiger in coloured pencil. The pattern was designed by Lee Hammond and can be found in her book 'Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil'. The tiger looks very realistic, and, I think Nancy has done a wonderful job with all the detail on the face, and, in particular, the eyes.

Linda made these four paintings to put on a little girl's wall - we all know how much princesses mean to little girls! The basic pictures were inked onto the backgrounds (stretched canvas), and then Linda added oil paint to complete the projects. The pictures are very colourful, and I think Linda did a great job.

I am busy working on about four projects, most of them in coloured pencil, and I will be posting some of my work within the next few weeks. The girls in our Monday and Tuesday art sessions are also very busy working on a variety of projects - I will also be posting their projects as they are finished. Their work is amazing and I am really looking forward to seeing all the completed projects.

Thanks for visiting my blog - please check back in a few weeks.

Joan