Here are the Khaki Campbell ducklings we bought at 3 weeks of age. Thank you, Deer Recovery of Caney!

Sketching takes a long time with cp. Especially using a pencil with less pigment. This tree sketch took too long! But I should have known. About a month ago, I did a sketch of my son’s dog: It took forever! I’ve got to think of everything as a full drawing or just sketch suggestions of… Continue reading Sketches

I’m going to show 2 lightfastness tests, after one month in partial sun. I’m showing Arteza pencils against an incredibly cheap kid’s pencil, Academix. Note also the yellowing of the paper. That’s ‘acid’-free Bienfang paper. Well, I’m not spending even a small amount of money on Arteza again. Oh, and is it just me, or… Continue reading Lightfast test, arteza

I did a quick sketch before supper last night: Color pencil is a clean way to relax and sketch! My hands don’t get dirty. 🙂 I just propped a vase up on the table beside my chair and had fun drawing it in color.

This is a practice baby, to see which color pencils look best, how to stroke, etc: I smudged the paper between an eye and the nose, then I erased so much I tore the paper, tried to cover it with white paint. I had lots of those moments, but I think the colors are ok.… Continue reading Practice baby

Still playing with the Arteza color pencil set. This is one of my chickens in front of the coop I built. She always stands like that and stares me down when I go in the pen. She can actually elongate her neck a little more.

I bought some Arteza color pencils. You know why. Cheap. When I opened them and started looking, my heart sank. Tons of the pinks and violets had the highest lightfastness ratings. Ha, ha ha. We all know better than that about pinks and violets. Maybe they assigned the ratings backwards. This is after one day… Continue reading Dratted Arteza

This is a sketch of my son’s dog. The colored pencil took a long time, though, even though I intended it just as a sketch.

This duck is my first attempt at CP: colored or color pencils. I shouldn’t show it, because I had no permission to use the gorgeous photo I looked at. (I’m also still missing my old website)