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| 8/12/25 Whole Foods cafe |
I just passed the halfway point in a dark blue Uglybooks. It’s the first time I’ve used this color as my daily-carry sketch journal, and I have to admit, it’s a tough one. Coloring highlights instead of shading is a brain buster, but that’s a challenge I enjoy. My struggle is with black and gray. Although I love the way white and some high-contrast acrylic markers pop against the blue, the contrast isn’t strong enough with dark inks. I could just forego black and gray in this book, and I might eventually, but in the meantime, I’m trying different approaches.
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| 8/14/25 |
Although I figured the paper would be too dark to use with
colored pencils, I tried a still life (right) using a white pencil first as a base
before applying other colors over it. With that technique, the colors popped
well enough – better than I expected.
I like the overlaps in the first sketch. I think your fruit done in the colored pencil worked well. Good idea to use white underneath.
ReplyDeleteI've had this same issue working with fabric and thread. For some reason, my mind insists that if I just go black, the black with automatically show up but it just isn't true. And of course, that same mind assumes the same thing when I work in my Strathmore tan toned sketchbook where the tone is quite dark. You'd think it would be more automatic to switch to white or something light and occasionally I remember to try it. :-) I like your reminder of putting down white first, then coloring over.
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