I placed an order for some of the Derwent ColourSoft pencils that I didn’t already have in those colours. All the colours I bought would be considered lightfast but I wanted to to try filling in some additional colours by ordering from Derwent’s “Lightfast” line. So I ordered the”Turquoise Green”. As a color it’s nice enough but it lacks the “smooth as butter” texture of the ColourSofts. It feels… scratchy. I’ll be sticking to the Derwent Drawing Coloured Pencils and the Coloursofts from now on.
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Playing with Colored Pencils
4″by 6″
Lately I’ve been getting back into colored pencils. Mostly because they require so much less planning than watercolors and it just feels freeing to use a pencil instead of a brush. I’ve also discovered Derwent Coloured Pencils. I’ve tried both their ColourSoft and their Colour Drawing pencils. They are much softer than the Faber Castell Albrecht Durer pencils I had been using. They also seem to be a hair less shiny, having more of a “sheen” than a shine.
I’ve also started using a program called Excalidraw to make notes about my process. I hate to think how many times i’ve looked at an old drawing and tried to remember what colors I used in it. This is nothing like a finished piece. It’s just for play.
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Watercolor Tree October 12
This one is almost done. I’m trying to decide if I should define some of the edges a bit more. I am starting to feel like I am getting the hang of this painting stuff a bit.
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I had always thought that Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial hotel in Japan had been demolished in the 50’s. Turns out that the section holding the hotel rooms was demolished. But the main lobby was saved and moved to a different location. One more reason I would like to visit Japan.
https://www.imperialhotel.co.jp/e/our_world/column/the_wright_imperial_2.html
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Moontree Bookmark
Another bookmark design. I’m having a little trouble photographing this one. The colors are a bit harsh and grainy.
So… I’ve started listing some bookmarks up on eBay. They’re all original paintings even though many of them share similar designs. The first one is this “Green Goddess”. If you’re interested it’s here.
I keep coming back to images like this one. A stylized tree inside a circular design. I haven’t posted much art lately. Not because I haven’t been making art. It’s that a lot of it was unsatisfactory (bad). Then I got out of the habit even after I was making art that I did like. And then I thought I should try and do it in some kind of chronological order. Excuses. Excuses. Anyhow this is Daniel Smith watercolors on Winsor and Newton Coldpress Professional paper. It’s about 3 by 5 inches.
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Dirigibles In Alaska
I’ve always liked the idea of dirigibles but they have never been successful as ordinary freight carriers. They simply can’t carry enough to justify their cost. The only time they were commercially successful was in the twenties and thirties when they were the equivelent of the Concorde, the fastest and most expensive way to cross the ocean. Once airplanes could make the trip, comercial dirigibles were doomed.
Dirigibles in Alaska
These are the sort of classes that I wish I would have had the time to take in college. But now we have YouTube and the Pandemic so it’s OK. History of Industrial Design isn’t just about designing factories it’s about all those everyday things we use that that are produced by industrial manufacturing. I especially like the lectures on Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
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