Two ACEO artworks for today!
ACEO Moonlit River, scratchboard, already up at auction. And another one in colored pencil realism:
ACEO Mountain View was done in Caran d'Ache Pablo colored pencils using a Derwent Drawing Pencil white, Ivory Black, Mouse Grey, Golden Yellow, Dark Green, Moss Green, Mahogany and a bright unlabeled violet Caran d'Ache Prismalo pencil (what they must have been called before they got called Pablo, it had exactly the same feel and texture and saturation). I love those pencils. They just went way up on my priority list, after I get the art I've had waiting since March, then I'm spending a month getting the giant set of Pablos. And shortly after, the giant set of Supracolor Soft as the 120 color watercolor pencil set even if it's more expensive than Albrecht Durer. I love the feel of those -- and the way they mix.
I actually mixed blue from a purple and a green, who'da thunk that'd work?
Edit... what I didn't mention is that I've also been working on All The Colors, my colored pencils how to draw book. I got bogged down a bit in the Materials chapter, but I'm going to skip that for now and go directly to doing some of the technique chapters. I need to have the rest of the Master Sets to do justice to the Materials chapter and its appendix rating the different types of colored pencils. What I need to do is a chapter on what to do with a new set, whatever it is, to place it on the scale and figure out how best to use it. What its color range is good for, whether it's more opaque or transparent, softer or harder, what techniques can compensate if it has a hard time with some effects.
And start doing different projects each in a different brand, so that whatever the reader has to start with, they can actually start off knowing they do have exactly the colors in at least one of those projects. There are several types of things relating to general drawing that need to be in there too, for the sake of teaching realism. But for fun, I'll do some of the general drawing stuff in Berol Sanford Col-Erase, which is cheap and pretty easy to find (unless it's hard to get in the UK, will have to find out about that).
So I have a writing project in hand, it just isn't fiction. And I haven't entirely been slobbing off. Just doing things other than spectacular new artworks for a few days. And tonight's art jam was as inspirational as all of them. It's funny, if we are jamming, Lisa and I both do a whole lot better than at other times. It's been consistent ever since she first came over to do plein air black-eyed susans in oils -- and kept on with the same paintings six weeks in a row too.