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| 7/13/17 water-soluble colored pencils |
After the big 1965 quake damaged the Plymouth Congregational Church, it had to be taken down, but the
four entrance columns were saved and reinstalled at the corner of Pike and
Boren. After meeting a friend for coffee at the Starbucks Roastery up the street from the park, I took the
opportunity to sketch them. (If they
look familiar, it’s because you saw them in the background of the photos I took
when I was at this pocket park earlier this week with the Northwest School students.)
With this sketch, I tried something a little different
from my typical “coloring book” approach (drawing an outline and then coloring
it in). It’s a bit more painterly (or at least that was my hope) and similar to
how I’ve been doing still lives –
using only colored pencils to both draw and color, and not relying on gray ink
or markers for shading. In this case, it wasn’t more time consuming, yet it was
somehow more challenging. I was trying to think in the same way that painters do
when they hit the paper directly with paint without a drawing first. I know it’s
easier with colored pencils, since they are essentially drawing tools, compared
to using a brush with liquid, but old habits die hard.
Overall, I like this approach, but my shading feels wimpy
compared to using ink or markers. I’m going to work on intensifying values
more.
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