Sketch done as a drawing exercise (and for fun!) along with other artists for Virtualsketch
Derwent colored pencil on the backside of Mi-Teintes black paper, measures 8.5″W x 6.5″H.
The photo is close to the original, but not quite as intense. Please go to Virtualsketch blog to see all artists sketches!
25 responses so far ↓
1 Stacy R // Sep 27, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Good use of the toned paper for the dark background. Good shape and definition on the petals too and nice, soft colors.
2 Regina // Sep 27, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Stacy – I was going to make it lighter, but decided I liked the soft colors. Thanks!
3 Melissa Muirhead // Sep 27, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Hi Regina, I love your petals, they are just gorgeous. Glad I found your blog – one of the best things about VSD is finding new blogs to bookmark!
4 Andy // Sep 28, 2008 at 1:33 am
Nice interpretation of the ref Regina, I’m always impressed when I see someone using black paper, and this works very well.
5 Jeanette // Sep 28, 2008 at 3:58 am
I do like this piece a lot. The soft colours are lovely and delicate.
6 Kari Gibson // Sep 28, 2008 at 5:24 am
Oh, clever idea – using the pencils on a dark background!
I love how you have achieved such wonderful lights on the petals and the bowl. Great sketch.
7 Ann // Sep 28, 2008 at 8:50 am
I love this! The dark background, the color, the comp, it’s really lovely!
8 Jennifer Rose // Sep 28, 2008 at 9:03 am
very soft looking petals
Good idea to use the black paper, saves on dark pencils and adds a lot of value to it.
9 Rose Welty // Sep 28, 2008 at 9:09 am
Love the petals and the highlights here – very nice!
10 Susan Carlin // Sep 28, 2008 at 9:21 am
Wow. This painting has real presence. Big impact. Beautiful subject and wonderful rendering. Cool!
11 Jo Castillo // Sep 28, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hi Regina, this is super. Good idea using the dark paper. Lovely petals and shine.
12 leslie // Sep 28, 2008 at 10:17 am
Beautiful, Regina!
13 Joanie // Sep 28, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Looks more like pastel than colored pencil. Very pretty.
14 sharon // Sep 28, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I love the touch of blue in this.
15 Gail // Sep 28, 2008 at 3:43 pm
great texture in this piece, good use of highlight, love your interpretation, the black paper was a good way to deal with the background
16 Barbara Weeks // Sep 28, 2008 at 3:44 pm
So delicate without being wimpy- really nice. I like the touch of blue too.
17 Dianne Mize // Sep 28, 2008 at 7:33 pm
This is lovely. It has a quietness to it that really speaks about the flowers.
18 Regina // Sep 29, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Sorry I couldn’t get back on to respond to everyone’s nice comments – the cold/flu I had all last week keeps trying to come back and get me!
Thank you Melissa for your comments on my blog – I enjoyed looking at yours also, especially your (first!) colored pencil animal portrait – it was great and the black on blue was very interesting!
19 Regina // Sep 29, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Andy – Thank you! I usually like the black paper, but couldn’t bring the color up on this as much as I wanted to. But overall, I liked the final piece. And your colored pencil tomatoes look wonderful!
Jeanette – Thank you for your comments – it was more muted than a lot of the pieces that came out of this study – I loved looking at all of them.
20 Regina // Sep 29, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Kari – I’ve done a few things on black paper, and actually didn’t like this one as much as some others. I did an onion a while back that I like better. (http://www.fallshadows.com/spicey.html) Your watercolor was just amazing!
Ann – thank you for your comments – I think next time I may try a lighter background like you did – yours was so lovely.
21 vivienne // Sep 30, 2008 at 3:06 am
I love this one, Regina. To me it has an olde worlde quality … sort of sepia and faded photos and memories of times past.
(Hope the ‘flu has disappeared and you’re feeling better.)
22 Paulette // Sep 30, 2008 at 2:29 pm
I like how Vivienne put it, that sounds about right.
Very nice work!
23 Sherrie Roberts // Oct 13, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Just wonderful that you did this on black paper. It is amazing at how the medium changes the feel and look.
Sherrie Roberts
24 Regina // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Thank you, Vivienne and Paulette – it did kind of end up that way, but I like how you described it, with the sepia and faded aspect.
25 Regina // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Sherrie – black paper seems to add a lot to certain still lifes, and I like doing light or colorful objects against a black background.
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