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| 12/15/25 Maple Leaf neighborhood |
This neighbor’s door has an undecorated wreath. It faces
perpendicular to the street, so I have a good view of it from an upstairs side
window. Just as I was finishing up, Charlotte came home and turned off the
porch light! Whew, just made it!
Material and process notes: After I published my review of
the Derwent Drawing Pencils with new colors, I was thinking about how
opaque the white pencils are and wondered how opaque the rest of the colors are
(I’ve updated the review post with swatches on black paper). Since my mind is
so much on nocturnes lately (or faux nocturnes), I thought it would be
interesting to make a few sample swatches of the pencils I think of as among the
most opaque and compare them to Drawing.
I picked out a few colors from Drawing, then tried to find close matches in each of the other lines. (Strangely, it was difficult to find exact matches between Drawing and Lightfast, both made by Derwent.) I have a small set of Holbein, so my matches were not close in some cases. Each swatch was two layers applied with heavy pressure.
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| Swatches made in Uglybook sketchbook. The whites sampled here are all a warmish off-white except Holbein, which is the basic white. |
Making swatches simultaneously with these five pencil lines, all among my softest, made me realize that Drawing is the least dusty of the five, and also the most “moist and creamy” (at the risk of sounding like a cake). It also confirmed that Caran d’Ache Luminance is the “driest,” despite being soft.
The sketch was made with Derwent Drawing. Effortlessly opaque, and they blend like a dream.
Well, the enabler struck again! After the earlier DDpencil post, I put a set and some extras in my Blick cart. Then I argued with myself about the NEED for more pencils and walked away. But, seeing the black paper comparison reminded me that I only have the prismas in this comparison! The others are on my grail list. Or, at least that’s how my brain rationalized. You should also mention that the Derwent drawing pencils are almost half the price of the Luminance, and still much less than the Holbeins (as open stock). So I went back. The 66 pencil set has many of the new colors (all of which have gone out of stock as singles since my first Blick foray, see what you did?). But, in order to avoid the dreaded shipping charge, I had to add some open stock Holbein and one Luminance pencil to meet the minimum. I hope you are happy. Now, excuse me while I explain to some lesser pencil sets why they have to find a new home.🙄😝 Anne HwH
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