Obama Profile

First off I want to mention a big sale at http://www.annkullberg.com/

$50 off our 8-CD Combo Set!
25% off Kits
25% off Portrait Tools
Even her online Colored Pencil Magazine is on sale!

If you've been thinking about getting one of my colored pencil kits there - well now's the time to do it!

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE! So get there fast. She does take paypal.

& here's Obama. I'm having a heck of a time photographing it and getting the colors and values right. I hope it just looks a little like what it does in real life on your monitor!

& the verdict on UART 500 - its not nearly as good for me as Fisher 400. The pencil keeps falling off. I don't don't know how many times I had to redo something I had done. Plus when I woke this morning there was a pile of pencil dust sitting on the ledge under the drawing. I will try another grit of the UART paper to see if I like it better and I will use it again just because it is easy to get and comes in big sheets.

Profile Barack Obama WIP

When I spoke to Monadnock Fine Art Gallery about my portraits, they asked if I still had my other Obama portrait. Which I don't anymore. So I said I would do another one. Again this is from a photo my friend Dan White took at a Obama rally here in New Hampshire. Thanks again Dan!

I decided to try a new paper for it: UART 500 grit. It is the archival version of Ersta paper and I thought might be similar to Fisher 400. It is similar but not the same. Fisher really grabs onto the pencil while UART 500 doesn't and consequently layers seem to disappear as you are working needing to be done over and over again. Although I do not like it as much as Fisher it is a viable alternative and it comes in a larger size than the Fisher 400.

I'll be updating this soon, although I have a busy week this week with a full set of classes, setting up for Art Walk, and the opening for Art Walk on Friday. Not to mention a very sick little 5 year old daughter. :-(

Out of the Ordinary

I only like doing portraits for fun and every once in a while I get the urge. I couldn't help myself with this one after seeing my friend Dan White's photos.

I was also wanting to try using my Supracolor (Caran D'Ache) watercolor pencils on white board mixed with regular colored pencils. I had fun with it - even though I intended to keep more of the loose watercolor feel. Oops.

Its 6" x 18" on white pastelbord and it only took 3-4 hours!

But I don't know what I'll do with it???

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