Wine Bigger

Welcome to my new and improved blog. Well its new and improved because I mistakenly erased my other blog which was stored with my website. So this time I thought I'd use blogger and let it be hosted there. Of course someone had the blogger url I wanted - my own name! That's the first time that has happened!

This was the last artwork I posted on the old blog. It is 18 x 24" and the first time I used solvent on a large scale with my colored pencils. It gives a very painterly look, essentially because it is painting.

I put the pencil down messily but like I was doing the beginning layers of pencil on any drawing. Then I used a flat 1/4" watercolor brush and brushed solvent over the pencil. You have to be careful with this step if you don't want to mix all the colors in a part... like with the wine bottles I have all the shading on there so I had to clean the brush in the solvent and go back in when I switched between the dark parts of the bottle and the lighter parts. If it wasn't coming out the right values I worked wet in wet and scribbled pencil over areas and brushed again with the brush. I used a lot of solvent I think... and it felt like working on a watercolor painting.