February 26

1st round.  Shapes, with watercolor pencils.  

Added shading and reflections...  Still need to play with it a bit.  

(The white splotches are from the flash reflecting on the water.)

And this is what it looks like after it dries.

I definitely need to play with layering the colors and blending a little bit better, but I think I am liking playing with the watercolor pencils.

Note that this was smooth paper in my sketchbook.  At other times, I'll draw on gessoed paper, and you can see the tooth.  For example, the fish from February 24 is gessoed.  You can definitely see the pigment from the pencils getting caught in between the teeth on the paper.  

February 25

Actor from tv.  Paused it to draw it.  Kinda looks like him.  I need to play with washing for shading effects...

February 24

I love the fish that my mom bought for my nieces that I got to keep because it was way too big to take home on the plane!  It's fun to draw.  I've drawn it with pastels in the past.  This time I used watercolor pencils.  

February 23

I drew this owl with watercolor pencils.  I liked how it looked, so decided not to water it down.  It's at a weird angle because it was actually on a show on tv.  I paused it to paint it - an exercise out of a book, One Drawing a Day by Veronica Lawlor.  I want to do some more exercises, just gotta wait for the weather to get nice.  

February 22

One of my students.  His face should have been a little rounder, his neck a little wider.  Otherwise, not bad.  I could have also done more shading on the face, which I didn't do, which looks awkward because I shaded his neck and his jacket...

February 21

It was on my desk.

February 20

Practicing for urban sketching...  the inside of my classroom, my kiddos spread out for testing.

A horrible example of perspective.  I really need to work on that more!