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| 5/29/26 View from Cafe Javasti, Maple Leaf neighborhood |
After our one day of summer when temps were in the high 70s and even low 80s in some parts, we were back to winter the following day. After a walk, I felt warm enough to get a table outside Café Javasti, where these conifers gave me an ideal opportunity for an experiment.
From experiences long ago, I had dismissed Stillman & Birn's Zeta sketchbook from use with wet media. While its smooth surface is beautiful with ink, markers and especially Derwent Drawing pencils, it’s just not sized appropriately for washes or generous spritzing. I’ve used water-soluble pencils with Zeta before, but it had been a while, and I wanted to refresh my memory on that combo. Trees like these are an ideal subject because I want to retain the detail of their distinctive, feathery limbs, which is more difficult to do with a toothy paper like Hahnemühle.
I like this result: A little water deepened the colors without obscuring the details, and it was dry enough for the Zeta surface to take it.
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