Contours

Opaline Dreams was interesting in that it was my first attempt at mixing Prismacolors with Neocolor IIs, which are water soluable.  Neocolors look much like a Crayola crayon when you hold them (although they are still considered a colored pencil – imagine the ‘lead’ of a colored pencil wrapped in paper, instead of wood).  It takes a bit of experimenting on a test scrap of paper to determine the right combination of crayons to achieve your color, especially since, once you wet them, the color will be very intense.  For this piece, I intended to use the Neocolors only for the darks; this was because I really felt the gray green color of the Colourfix paper was a key part of the skin tones and fabric, and wanted it to show through in the lights.  Since Colourfix can be difficult to get a full range of values on, having solid darks on a lighter paper also helped address this.

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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.

I’ve started the giclee print process for “Wrapped”, based a some requests for prints.  Wrapped is one of the last pieces I did on Stonehenge paper, before switchng over to Colourfix.  I expect to have prints available for sale in February.  You can view Wrapped here , and also see the original work in progress photos here.

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 »

Lambent won first place in its category, Pastel/Colored Pencil, at the Wyoming Valley Art League Spring 2008 Member’s Show. There was a great turnout on Friday for the show at the Midtown Gallery in Wilkes-Barre.

There was a good turnout for this weekend’s workshop at the Wyoming Valley Art League, with 16 members attending. We had time to work with white, red, and black Colourfix paper, and I gave everyone dark green and gray samples to take home. The workshop’s title was “Capturing Light with Colored Pencil and Sanded Papers”. Here’s a snapshot of the main exercise, a rose, done on 4″ x 6″ black Colourfix:

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Kiersten’s father emailed some pics he snapped during the opening reception at Something Special.

Below: Kiersten and me.

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