Contours

Prismacolor is hosting a contest on their Facebook page, where the grand prize winner may have his artwork appear on one of their 2012 tins. I decided to create a piece specifically for the contest.  A few years ago we did a makeover on a small room in our house, converting it to a den.  The walls were painted a rich terra cotta color, and one of the lamps was red stained glass.  I nicknamed it “The Red Room”, and did a piece called “In the Red Room” (12″H x 9″W Prismacolor pencil on red Artspectrum Colourfix paper, 2007).  Earlier this year I was thinking about some ideas for pieces and took a few photos for some poses, and one of these became “The Red Room, Revisited” (15″H x 10″W Prismacolor pencil on black Artspectrum Colourfix paper, December 2011).  Here’s a picture of both pieces side by side:

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Today I completed “Daydreams”, 12″H x 26″ W on Aubergine Artspectrum Colourfix paper.  Pencils used were mostly Prismacolors, with also quite a few Derwent Coloursofts, and Neocolor IIs used sparingly for the black areas.  All of the crazy fabric folds weren’t the hard part – I love drawing fabric; it was the sheet pattern which gave me the most difficultly.  Read more »

20″ x 12″ Prismacolor colored pencil and Neocolor II on Fresh Gray Colourfix paper.  Completed 2010.

7″ x 5″ colored pencil on Pastelbord.  2010.

9″ x 12″ Prismacolor colored pencil on storm blue Colourfix paper.

7″ x 5″ Prismacolor colored pencils on gray Pastelbord.  Completed 2009.

5″ x 7″ Prismacolor colored pencil on gray pastelbord. Completed 2009.

This year I’ll be one of the artists donating a piece to the CPSA silent auction at the 16th Annual International Exhibition in Seattle. Since “Cascade” will appear in the exhibition, I thought it would be fun to use one of the other poses from the session for the donated piece. There are size constraints on the auction pieces, so this is smaller than I usually work on Colourfix: Read more »

Derwent Coloursoft, Derwent Signature, and Prismacolor colored pencil on green Pastelbord, 5″W x 7″H. Completed 2008.

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18″ H x 27″ W. Prismacolor, Lyra, and Derwent colored pencils on brown Colourfix paper. Completed 2008.

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8″ x 10″ Prismacolor colored pencils on gray Pastelbord. Completed 2007.

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