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| 9/5/12 Pitt Big Brush Markers, Moleskine sketchbook |
Authors and instructors of drawing often advise beginners to
stick with monochrome drawing media and avoid color, which can distract one
from learning to understand values – the lights and darks in a subject.
Intellectually, I understand this advice, but I’m such a color junkie that I
usually can’t resist adding color. My color habit also makes me want all the
available colors in, say, a type of marker.
Lately, though, I’ve been having fun experimenting with
markers as a sketching medium more than as a coloring agent. I started out using markers as a way to distill a complex or vast scene. Now I am also using
them to help me study values. I’ve been forcing myself to select only a few to
take with me at a time, even if I own a huge palette. The limited palette
enables me to see and study lights and darks better. And the variable-tipped
markers – my favorite water-soluble Japanese brush markers as well as
non-water-soluble Pitt Artist Pens Big Brush Markers – make me focus on the
large shapes rather than details.
Standing on our southern-facing sundeck, I saw a utility
pole and our neighbors’ trees casting interesting shadows in the early morning
sunlight.
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| 9/5/12 Pitt Big Brush Markers |
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| 9/5/12 Pitt Big Brush Markers |
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