Brand New!! Girtin Inwards Coloured Pencils

I spent this afternoon developing a drawing based on The White House at Chelsea yesteryear Thomas Girtin. I want I'd bothered to cheque the original - which is at the Tate. I kept being bothered by the fact the White House was non on a "sweet spot" as well as didn't await quite equally I remembered it. It's forthwith clear the reference I was using had cropped the original as well as removed a pregnant chunk from the correct mitt side

After Girtin - The White House at Chelsea
Caran d'Ache Luminance coloured pencils on Arches Hot Press

Never hear - the practise got me dorsum into drawing 1 time again forthwith I tin meet coloring properly again. I had my magnifiers perched on the halt of my olfactory organ as well as they did an OK labor inward damage of me beingness able to meet the paper. However side yesteryear side calendar week I tin get-go the procedure of getting a novel prescription for reading as well as reckoner glasses.

It too reminded me of why I similar copying proficient paintings - I ever acquire something relating to coloring or musical note or how to relate a 3D sort or grade on a slice of paper

I'm minded to do unopen to to a greater extent than drawings using yesteryear masters equally my models as well as focusing on skies.

This detail drawing was done using my novel batch of Caran d'Ache Luminance coloured pencils.

Caran d'Ache Luminance Coloured Pencils
- a recent buy at the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition