“Rose Hips” 5×7″, Faber Castell Polychromos pencils on Stonehenge paper
In an effort to move swiftly away from yesterday’s post, here are two pieces I did in the last month or so. I had never used Polychromos pencils before, but since Dick Blick is my candy man, I couldn’t resist. I cannot recommend these wonderful pencils highly enough. Incredible to work with, and combined with the Stonehenge…something close to Paradise.
The rose hips were snipped from my climbing white rose. I’ve always been told that you can eat them, and they are an excellent vitamin C source, but I’ve always been afraid to try. The piece below is a branch my husband brought into the studio, after my request to bring in something “natural for me to draw”. I asked him from what tree it came, and he replied, “I dunno. One of the trees out there.” The “trees out there” in West Virginia amount to a lot of trees, if you’ll forgive the understatement. So…sorry I don’t know the species of this one.
“Withered Branch”, 5×7″, Polychromos pencil on Stonehenge paper
Words and images (unless otherwise noted) are © Kathy Ferrell 2013
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Nice work. Thanks for the tip on the pencils. I find that I can do a decent drawing fairly quickly where my acrylic paintings take forever, so I am thinking to get into drawing and explore other forms of color artwork in relation to that.
These are fantastic! I have a couple of illustrated botanical guides from the 1950′s and these illustrations match the style wonderfully!
very nice studies
Wow, thank you! I’m blushing a little.
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Mike! I’m kind of in the same place as you. I just felt like I wanted a lot of new work in my portfolio, and drawing can certainly get you there quicker. It’s not egg tempera, lol.
Thank you so much, Sue! It did. It really did.
Yep. I am not sure why painting has to take me so much longer than drawing. =^)
REally lovely.
Thank you!