Sometimes it’s difficult to decide which medium would be the best to work with when you have a certain final creation in mind. I have started with pastel pencils and after twenty minutes or so, switched to watercolor, then decided that wouldn’t work and ended up drawing with colored pencil, because I wanted a lot of detail and sharp lines.
Colored pencil work takes patience and focus, but it’s great meditation too. Some things just seem to come out better with the small exact strokes and slow laying down of color available through working with colored pencils. This is a piece I did a few years ago – and often when I do a realistic piece, I end up using a magnifying glass so that I can truly see the detail of what I am drawing. At times, it seems like working with pencil is going back to the basics, which can be a good thing once in a while.
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1 Jo Castillo // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:46 pm
You have some amazing detail in this and the colors are lovely. Somehow for me there is no meditation in colored pencil. I so admire you for your patience and delicacy with the pencils. Just lovely.
2 Regina // Feb 28, 2009 at 9:24 am
Thank you, Jo – that’s so nice! I’ve done pencil drawings since… forever, but like other mediums, they don’t always work out. Don’t you think you use different things – pastels, acrylics, oils, pencil – sometimes depending on your mood and patience factor?
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