I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I have been having asthma problems so I haven't been going outside very much. They are plowing all the fields around us, which is making it worse.
However, I did step outside to see what God sent us the other day and today. A turkey. A Naragansett Turkey actually. It's definitley domesticated. I figure it must belong to one of the farmers nearby. Anyways, my two cats are trying to attack it, so I have been having to keep the little devils inside. I threw out some bird seed for it and it seems to like that, but I have no place to keep a turkey, other than an old run down chicken coop that is overrun by blackberry bushes. A very pretty bird. Wish I had a better camera to take a picture of it, but alas my camera bit the dust a few months back.
Work In Progress
So, I started the Mother's Day Gift piece. Doing this one completely in color pencil. I am presently working on the background right now.
I had to scan it in two sections, as it is way to big for my scanner. So, I tried my best to get rid of the shadow in the center because of the two separate scans, but just couldn't. If anybody knows a technique to get rid of the shadow, please let me know. I am working from pretty old photos, so I hope I can capture the likeness of each subject well.
Finished Work
So finally did the final touches to the first panel. I might make some more changes to it, as I begin to work on the second panel, to blend the two together. I will be selling them as a set.
Done in color pencil using warming board technique and eraser technique.
Color Pencil Tip of the Week
This week, I want to share with everyone the different pressures I use, when applying color pencil. I mainly use light to medium pressure, in building up my layers of colors. I wanted to show an example of what the pressures look like. As you can see from the example, the heavy pressure clearly differs from the light pressure.
The advantages of using light to medium pressure, verses medium to heavy pressure is the following:
- more control over the area you are working on
- easier to erase mistakes
- less stress on your wrists and fingers
- less wax bloom build-up
- longer time in completing a work
- can lose tooth of paper, due to many layers
Resource of the Week
I stumbled upon Rhonda Bartoe's blog this past week. Be sure and check out her posts some wonderful color pencil tips
Bartoe Art - Color Pencil Mixing
http://bartoe-art.blogspot.com/2008/12/colored-pencil-color-mixing.html
Hope you all have a great week!
Hugs and Happy Creating!
Carol
I am delighted to have stumbled across your work, you are truly a gifted artist. I thank you for sharing your tips, they are very helpful.
ReplyDeleteIt's always a pleasure to meet another Oregon Artist who is basically self-taught. I am enjoying your WIP, your work is incredibly beautiful.
I had to wait until I retired from selling insurance to really get to the point where I can actually begin to really learn art techniques (a matter of raising children and earning a liveable income). But here I am at the ripe old age of 64 and learning as much as I can while I can!
I, too, have been sharing some of my WIPs ... if you'd care to see my style here is my latest posting link: http://irelandbrady.blogspot.com/2012/04/beach-scene-wip-day-3.html
I enjoy watching other artist's WIPs and always tend to learn a little something new ... thank you for sharing your current WIP.
Again, you are an incredibly gifted artist and I am so happy to meet you!
Thank you so much for stopping by and for your kind words! So glad you enjoyed the wip and the tips. I enjoy watching other artists wip too. What part of Oregon are you from? I live about 10 min. north of McMinnville in Carlton. Thanks again for stopping by! :)
DeleteI live in Portland, have lived here my entire life. Like you, I am basically a self-taught artist. I learn a lot from tips and works in progress by other artists.
DeletePS Did you ever find the turkey's family? I thoroughly enjoyed your "Turkey Adventure" tale ... 8~)
ReplyDeleteNo I didn't and it disappeared so I am thinking it possibly found it's way back home. It was such a beautiful turkey. Never seen those kind of markings and colors before.
ReplyDeleteAww what a cute little turkey! I hope you find a place to keep him. :)
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of trouble when I'm scanning bigger pieces too. I realllly need to get a flatbed scanner. I tend to get the shadows too, and I can never seem to get my scans of a painting to line up very well, so I have to play with the transform tool to get them to line up. As for shadows, I use the clone stamp tool to correct those, though my shadows aren't generally as large as the ones in your picture. Best of luck! :)
It actually disappeared. I will have to give the clone tool a try thanks Sasha!
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