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[blackmare]

From Tuesday night when I was gallery-tending. I was very happy to find a big vase of flowers on hand there, so I spent the time drawing lilies. These are about 9" x 7", pastel pencils on paper.








These are for sale, either unmatted at $25 each, or archivally matted to fit an 11 x 14" frame at $45 each/$79 for the set of two.

Comments

[thesynchronomes]

I love the paper (the texture looks really beautiful!) and I love how you added the highlights to the lilies themselves. Good work! :)

[blackmare]

It is great paper. It's a Cachet Earthbound sketch book and they can be hard to find in stores, but you can order them online.

I love this for dry media drawing and also pen and ink, but it's lightweight and doesn't take ink washes or other wet media; it'll buckle badly. When I want brown paper that will stand up to anything, I have to use Rives BFK Tan, which is a thick velvety printmaking paper that I love love LOVE.

[lark_ascends]

Really beautiful!

[blackmare]

Thanks!

I first learned to use toned paper in a class on Renaissance drawing, and I've hardly looked back. I rarely draw on white paper anymore.

[lark_ascends]

It really does add to this drawing.

[black_hound]

How I just LOVE these and that toned paper.

[blackmare]

This paper is a Cachet Earthbound Sketch Book.

They're awesome. I have one that's bound like a regular book and then another spiral-bound one, and both are the same wonderful paper.

Also recommended: Pitt Pastel Pencils (which I used for the lilies -- one umber-colored, one "sanguine" red-terra-cotta colored, and one white) and Wolff's Carbon Pencils, which are PURE LOVE.