Paints Pens-N-Pencils

The day we spend with family, giving thanks for each other and our blessings. Also stuffing our faceswith food! I bet this guy is thankful for acorns! Thanksgiving blessings to everyone!

Fall is my favorite time of the year! The colors are so gorgeous, I just had to pick them up and record them in my sketchbook.

Roses my husband got for me for my birthday. I wanted to capture them before they faded away. They were yellow roses but I drew them in my moleskine with brown and tuscan red Co-lerase pencils. They have a pastel look when blended.

I thought I would try pencil in my moleskine sketchbook. I have tried different mediums and not the graphite pencil until now. And I am not sure where this theme came from but it falls in line with "collections" or repetition. I think "practice" is more accurate. The paper is not bad to work on with pencil but heavy blending roughs up the paper a bit, unlike working on Bristol board which can take a lot of abuse. It is what I normally use when working in graphite.

This drawing is of a "Collection" of things. In this case buttons. Andrea Joseph was the teacher for the 5th Klass/week of Semester 2 of Sketchbook Skool and she presented her style of drawing using ball point pens. So our homework for the week was to create a "collection" drawing using a ballpoint pen. This was quite a change from using a pencil which is my main choice for artwork, but it was a challenge and I still may try to create more sketchbook drawing using this medium. It is rather addictive to use and has a unique look to it.

Some more practice on Kross hatching!

Practicing Krosshatching with a lemon. The scan didn't do the best job of displaying the colors. I will have to play with the settings to get a better image.