Coffee, Scone and Toned Paper

5/25/16 ink, white charcoal pencil, toned paper

5/25/16 ink, white charcoal pencil

At Zoka Coffee this morning, I hit the first page of occasional toned paper that I had bound into the last batch of signatures I stitched. The sizing on the Strathmore toned paper is different from the Canson XL watercolor paper I’m used to, so the fountain pen ink didn’t wash the way I expected. I practiced a little hatching on one sketch, and by the time I got to the woman with the big bun of hair, I was getting the ink to shade a little better. Then I had to get the hang of using white charcoal pencil, which doesn’t pop the way it does on my red Field Notes. Despite all that, tan toned paper is definitely fun to use now and then.

5/25/16 ink, white charcoal pencil

But the most fun I had with my coffee and scone was sketching the little dog who was waiting for his human to come back out of the donut shop across the street. Ever hopeful, he would turn around to look at the door every time it opened, then flop back down with a sigh.

5/25/16 brush pen, white charcoal pencil, white gel pen,
Field Notes

5/25/16 ink, 140 lb. watercolor paper