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2.5 x 3.5
Cretacolor pencil on illustration board
ebay

Well, like the color, don't like the pencil.

Pictured here is a light sepia (from their website), but I used Dark Sepia.
The Cretacolors are charcoal, and charcoal is DRY DRY DRY. I wasn't able to achieve the subtlety I usually do, or at least it was way too difficult. The pencil felt scratchy on the board, which drove me NUTS. Then it broke once in the sharpener and I had to do the Heimlich on the thing to get it out.

I don't want to bad-mouth these pencils. I think they're fine quality and would be just perfect for some other application. Like shading, blending, etc. Some of these you can even add water to.
But for what I do, with my grainy detailed thing, no. I won't be using these again.
Harumph!

I'm sort of cranky, can you tell? I have all sorts of cool projects going, and can't talk about or show any of them. Then the ones I could show, aren't really bloggy type things. So I'm super busy, but in a "too many things on my mind at once" kind of way.

In better news, today is the first day here of no more "Bleakitude" (to quote John Nez). The sun was out this morning, the plants were happy, my cats were basking on the back deck, and the birdies were chirping it up. That's what made me feel like drawing a plant.

I wish I could just sit and take tea on the lawn, or work my needlepoint by a sunny window, or take a long walk through the woods to the neighbor's estate for a chat and dinner. (Can you tell I watched Pride and Prejudice last night?)

Ah well, back to the 21st century and my drawing table.

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