Colored Pencil drawing and marker drawings

Like the reflection in the colored pencil drawing. Experimented with markers trying to draw back lit plant.

Design Drawing & Color Theory class - Colored Pencil Activity

Made 6 color color wheel with our pencils. Learned to scrumbling by lightly layering multiple layers of various colored pencils to build up color. Also learned about burnishing with colorous pencil to make shiny. However this may create a haze / wax bloom with dark colors so you have to spray fixative over your drawing to prevent this. Learned it's important to keep your pencil sharp so it gets down into the tooth of the paper. Here's my apple and pear from our class activity.

Some pastel sketchings and a pencil drawing

Saw Jan Lievens exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum, www.mam.org , last Thursday. It was awesome, plus some high school exhibit for southeastern Wisconsin. That was excellent too.
Here's the pencil drawing for last drawing class assignment, plus a pastel sketch of male model from Tuesday Milwaukee Sketch club and a pastel sketch I started Thursday of "Kilroy".

Charcoal Landscape Demo by Thomas Pscheid at AC Art Association Meeting

Thomas's charcoal paintings are exquisite. See http://www.leagueofmilwaukeeartists.com/thomas_pscheid.htm .

He uses the smooth side of mis-teintes white paper. He starts with his gray flint color alpha mat and marks where he wants a white border to show within the mat window. He then puts removable tape down and tapes down paper to the removable tape to cover to the edges.

He starts his drawing by loosely drawing in the main shapes. He uses mostly vine charcoal of various hardnesses, a kneaded erasor, paper towel and paper stomps (tortillons) of various sizes for blending. He sometimes uses a mahl stick to rest his hand on. Occasionally will use a dark charcoal pencil or a white charcoal pencil but he prefers to save his whites. He uses sandpaper to sharpen his charcoal. Generally works from background (sky) to foreground.

When done he sprays his charcoal painting with fixative and removes the protective paper and tape.