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| 12/8/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood, 6:35 a.m. |
I sketched this house about a year ago, probably at
about the same time of day. This time I tried a more vertical format and
included a car. These neighbors never put up holiday lights on their house. The soft illumination of their porchlight is comforting on these darkest of mornings.
Looking at last year’s post reminded me that I showed my
nocturne sketch kit then. I’ve simplified it this year. I’m still using the ever-handy Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 book light, of course. I kept the white Sakura Gelly Roll and white Derwent Drawing Pencil, chose just a few warm and cool
near-white Prismacolors, and took out the rest of the colored pencils. My
recent use of limited palettes has taught me that having fewer choices is better.
Besides, when sketching in the dark, I can barely distinguish one near-white
from another!
However, anticipating sketches of holiday lights, I also added a fistful of Kuretake Zig Fudebiyori metallic brush pens (my review at the Well-Appointed Desk).
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| Metallic brush pens in; lots of whitish colored pencils out |
I really like these black paper sketches you're doing. Very different view of our universe.
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's the only thing interesting about these long, long winters. ;-)
DeleteThis is just SO GOOD!! The minimal amount of white is perfect.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joan! This is the nocturne-sketching time of year!
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