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