Shaking It Up
03/06/2018
I'm taking another drawing class this semester. This time, it's a colored pencil technique class, and the whole point is to stretch our drawing in new directions.
Here is a little something I did in class last week. It's a Lake Michigan sunset using wax-based colored pencils on sandpaper.
Yep. Sandpaper.
Sometimes it's good to just shake things up a bit and try something completely unexpected.
In art and in life!
Sandpaper???!!!??? That just sounds weird....and shaken up. I do love your picture - so very, very pretty.
Posted by: Vera | 03/06/2018 at 08:19 AM
Wow! I thought it was a photograph!
Posted by: Geri | 03/06/2018 at 08:24 AM
How fun! Colored pencils are my favorite art medium. I have a set of watercolor pencils somewhere. Might be fun to play with them a bit.
Posted by: Juliann | 03/06/2018 at 08:48 AM
Nice! So curious how you covered the grain so completely in the top section.
Posted by: Laine | 03/06/2018 at 09:17 AM
Sandpaper & watercolor pencils...how interesting. At first I thought your gorgeous picture was a photo...amazing!
Posted by: Debbie | 03/06/2018 at 09:29 AM
That is breathtakingly beautiful!!!!!
Posted by: kim in oregon | 03/06/2018 at 09:43 AM
You are amazingly talented. Love the drawing, the texture of the sandpaper really does add something.
Posted by: Sue | 03/06/2018 at 10:12 AM
Oh, Kym, that is lovely! Go you!! I've seen pastel work on similar paper -- it's amazing what a little "tooth" can do.
Posted by: Vicki | 03/06/2018 at 11:07 AM
Wow! That's awesome and what a great way to stretch your drawing abilities. Go you!
Posted by: Carole | 03/06/2018 at 11:57 AM
So I wonder how your pencils hold up on such a rough surface. The drawing looks like a photograph! You have so many great art class opportunities in your area.
Posted by: margene | 03/06/2018 at 12:12 PM
Wow! On my iPad your drawing looks like a photograph. Very beautiful!
Posted by: Jo | 03/06/2018 at 12:49 PM
That's beautiful! I love the texture.
Posted by: Cheryl S. | 03/06/2018 at 12:58 PM
Simply wonderful! Wish we were sitting there with a glass of wine discussing the beauty!
Posted by: Patty | 03/06/2018 at 02:26 PM
Very beautiful. My daughter and I have been talking about how interesting it is that large bodies of water take on the color of the sky. You captured the lake edge so well.
Posted by: Jane | 03/06/2018 at 08:38 PM
ahhh - that's a view I haven't seen in real life, but I'm not sure it could be any better than your lovely drawing. beautiful, Kym!
Posted by: Mary | 03/07/2018 at 07:46 AM
No wonder you take art lessons, something that has never occurred to me. You have a natural talent, Kym. Hard to believe it is not a photograph.
Posted by: Chloe | 03/07/2018 at 09:14 AM
Holy cow! What? You continually surprise me and in such amazing ways! XO
Posted by: AsKatKnits | 03/07/2018 at 09:55 AM
Cannot imagine drawing on sandpaper, but you did a wonderful job. That view of Lake Michigan is lovely. You have talent.
Posted by: Susan | 03/07/2018 at 03:01 PM