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By:
Paula Pertile,
on 1/14/2015
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Drawing a Fine Line
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Finished!
This has to be one of the most decadent things I've ever eaten (or drawn).
I used mostly Prismacolors, then a little Polychromo Caput Mortuum Violet (my favorite color!), and a Coloursoft Brown Earth. Its about 8" x 8" on 10" square-ish paper.
Not much else to say. I'll clean up the background and do prints.
Now its back to kitty drawings . . .
Last week I had to get my car worked on (new brakes!), so I put together a little tin of treats to give the guys (I know, I'm so nice). My motivation wasn't all selfless though. I kept back one of these luscious brownies for myself, to draw.
This isn't any ordinary brownie. Its a super decadent salted caramel brownie. (I overheard one of the car shop guys say he could feel his arteries clogging after he ate one.) They're big, and luscious, and heavy. And irresistible to someone who likes to draw food!
This is how I start. Actually, this is several 'steps' into the process. I just didn't feel like getting up to scan it, but decided I'd better before I got much farther into it. I start by mapping out the nooks and crannies, then start filling in the shadows first, then the more chocolatey parts. I'm simultaneously working out the color (hue), as well as the values (light and dark). One pass of color might focus more on the value, and the next layer might just fill in some flat color.
The parts that are still white are where the caramel is. Its a completely different color, so I'm getting as much of the chocolate established as I can first, then I'll do the caramel.
I can't wait to eat this thing. The smell is driving me crazy! (in a good way)
It has quite a ways to go, but I'll get there.
Oh, its about 8" x 8", so far all Prismacolors, on Fabriano Artistico paper.
By:
Paula Pertile,
on 8/14/2014
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All of these are 5" x7", done with Polychromo colored pencils on Fabriano paper
Prints and some of the originals are in the
etsy shop. (These images are of the originals, with the paper texture background. For the prints, I used Photoshop to clean up the backgrounds to pure white.)
Go
here to hear them sing the song in Central Park.
That's all I can muster today. Robin Williams leaving us has knocked the wind out of my sails, completely. He lived in my old neighborhood in San Francisco, and was part of the fabric of everyone's lives there for years. I just can't believe he's gone. RIP Robin.
"Jujyfruits"
8" x 10", every colored pencil under the sun, on Fabriano Artistico paper
This one was a CHALLENGE.
My client wanted an old, retro Jujyfruits box, which of course you can't buy anymore.
I was lucky enough to find this picture by googling (its amazing what people take pictures of, and put on the internet, isn't it?)
The new box, if you go shopping for these today, looks like this:
So, Photoshop to the rescue! I used Distort and a couple of other commands in the Transform palette to tweak the old box onto the new one, in the layout the client liked. I ended up with a very Frankenstein-y stitched together weird reference photo to work from!
After I had this worked out, I just started rendering. I had to tuck in the little side flap, and fix the shadows. I brightened it all up a bit, and had to invent just a bit of lighting to make the shadows work.
The client loved it, so I'm happy. I'm very glad to have this one finished!
Now its back to some other work I have on the board. I had a panic about Christmas being only a few months away the other night. I AM NOT READY. I'll be getting the midnight oil out to burn pretty soon. Meanwhile, its still very much Summer, with sun and bees and flies and lawn sprinklers and the A/C going strong. Hope you're enjoying your August, whatever its like where you live.
By:
Paula Pertile,
on 4/28/2014
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More food and houses!
I just can't seem to resist a nice pastry. This is a little Svenhard's Berry Horn. They come individually wrapped in cello, in an assorted mix. Of course I picked the most colorful one to draw (there are also Cheese Horns, Raisin Snails, Cinnamon Rolls, and Breakfast Claws). I'm fascinated by the names of these things.
Berry Horn 8" x 8" (20.32 x 20.32 cm)
Polychromo colored pencils on Fabriano Artistico Hot Press paper
When I was a kid my parents loved to go to bakeries and coffee shops, to sit at the counter with a donut and cup of coffee and chit-chat with people (this is back in the olden days, pre-internet). So I spent a lot of time with donuts and pastries (and bad, weak coffee shop coffee, which I still abhor).
One time I ordered "a coconut donut", and the waitress brought a "Coke and a donut". Well, that became a 'thing', and I ordered that every time to see what I'd get, until I wore that joke out.
I did this drawing about 2 times larger than life. Prints and the original are in my
etsy shop.
I also just finished another house portrait commission. This one is black and white, which I love doing.
Most people do pen and ink for black and white work, but I love using my black pencils. Its a kind of softer look.
I'm using the same technique I always do, but I'm noticing it comes out looking a little different with this new paper (Fabriano Artistico Hot Press) than other work I've done with Stonehenge. Gradations are a little smoother, and less grainy. I'm liking it!
I've updated my
etsy shop listings for house portrait commissions, with the new samples, and a slight adjustment in prices. As always, if you have a custom size or shape that I don't have listed, or would like to add people, or do multiple buildings in one portrait, I'm happy to do that for you. Please email me or send me a 'convo' on etsy and we can talk about what you'd like.
By:
Paula Pertile,
on 1/29/2013
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How could I not draw one of these?
5.5" x 4.5"-ish on 8"x 8" Stonehenge paper
If you don't know, its a Hostess Cupcake. Its an iconic American snack food. We all remember eating these as kids. And recently, Hostess announced they were going out of business. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there was a run on these at the stores, and I managed to get the last package at my local grocer's.
I have a fond memory of touring the Wonder / Hostess plant here on a school field trip in about the second grade. The place smelled so wonderful! And we were all given a wee tiny little loaf of freshly baked Wonder Bread to take with us. I always loved driving by the place, rolling down the windows to catch that heavenly freshly-baked scent. But now, alas, its quiet and empty and there are no more fresh bread smells. Very sad. Very sad indeed.
So I drew a cupcake for posterity. (I also have a loaf of Wonder Bread and some other goodies in the freezer that may become drawings as well, we'll see.)
I scanned this a few times along the way as I was drawing it, so you can see how it developed.
I started with Coloursofts - this was a layer of Brown Earth.
Then I added more browns, and a layer of Loganberry.
The icing is Polychromo Bistre, Cream, and Ivory.
Then a layer of my beloved Polychromo Caput Mortuum. I love love love that color!
And more of the same on the icing.
To finish off the top I added some PC Sepia and Burnt Sienna.
The icing just got "more".
The cupcake itself was a combination of all the already mentioned colors, just done to look like cake instead of frosting.
I'm not really a fan of burnishing, just because once you 'go there' there is no turning back. And doing a lot of it can hurt your hand (well, mine, anyway). But to get the frosting to look really smooth, I had to burnish a bit. Then the rest of it had to get burnished as well, just so it all looked the same. So this piece was pretty fussy, but it was still a lot of fun to do.
I've put it up for auction on ebay,
here. I started the bidding high, because I'm rusty on 'ebay-ing' and couldn't find the reserve listing thing they used to have (with that, you can start bidding low, but set a reserve price so that if the bidding doesn't go high enough, no one will get it). I don't want it to sell
too cheap. It may not sell at all! And if not, I'll put it in my etsy shop.
I did do prints in the
etsy shop though.
Not sure what's next - maybe a Twinkie? All I could get on that last day were chocolate cream ones, not the white gooey ones, so I'm dithering about whether to do them or not. Wait, I think I have some Ho-Hos ...
Oops, you dropped a crumb! Around here, no crumbs went to waste. :-)
Looks sooo real from here, thanks for the tutorial too.
Now that looks tasty - at first glance, I thought it was a photo! As for what next, I say work on both a twinkie and an ho-ho :) Can't go wrong with either.