July9, 2014

Practicing shading - ball point pen on bristol smooth using cross hatching, hatching and cross contour hatching.

And I still need a lot of practice!!!

This one isn't soooo bad.

This one is the worst of all...

The shadows on this one just plain suck, but I did get the shading a little better.

I'm also working on another basket!  Check it out!

Waxed braided cotton thread.  

Got to get back to it talk to you later.

June 25, 2014

My first sphere in color. And of course I had to reach for the purple...what 'cha think?

I think I have the shading thing figured out she so now maybe I'll move on to a cube. I just really want to work on getting my shading techniques down properly.

I also started a new fleur-de-lis on what panel.  This time no pencil, so only charcoal.

Let's hope I do better with this one than I did with the last piece. Much more sparingly with the fixative, this time, as that's where the problem came in the last time.

I really love that ribbon designe too.  I will probably give that one another shot.