Thursday, December 8, 2011

Sketchbook planning: paper

Did the pastels.
They work wonderfully over the inks.
Sketched lots.
Using a small Daler-Rowney wirebound.
Like the tooth & how it works with inks.

The arm & shoulder are slowing down.
Confidence exceeds fluency right now, but that's OK, if I had to choose, I'd stick with confidence.
Got pastels on my fingertips.
Used a chamois.
Laid down brush pen washes, then inked over.

Almost marked the "official" sketchbook, but: didn't.
The paper's really thin.
I don't want to stick pairs of pages together...
I'd rather work out something that doesn't show through.
Maybe the inks will go -- at least the dark ones.
We'll see...

I was surprised at how hard it was to stop working.
That's the way I want it, but I was afraid it would take a while to get there.
My words are choppy, direct, spare, now,
like the way I was working.

Uncharted waters, thinking maybe east to west to east to west.
Fuschia fields, embroideries.
Don't forget owl, pussycat & pea-green boat.
And the blue blue sea, or is it the wild one...

Hey, angel!
x

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(What's this about?  It's The Sketchbook Project (2012 edition) from Art House Co-op.)

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