Project RS.52-2B

Today after receiving another encouraging email from Tatie, I decided to have another try at doing this weeks exercise for Project RS.52 but really wanted to do two things:
a) Really push myself with both accuracy and speed  b) experiment further with watercolour pencils. After making my breakfast of English crumpets, English cucumber slices and a tomatoe, I pulled out my tin of Watercolour pencils, my sketchbook and my waterbrush and got to it. Needless to say my crumpets were very cold when I finished sketching and I had to nuke 'em in the microwave to make them somewhat edible :-(

My tin of Derwent watercolour pencils

After 20 minutes

Even pushing real hard with only the watercolour pencils

I still only got this far but had the rudimentary breakfast

items sketched in. Did not get to the can of Nestea ice tea

though, only the outline. These watercolour pencils are

exceptional. The trick is to sharpen them well. I know 

that some pencil sharpeners have a bigger hole for

sharpening colour pencils, but I find with these it is

better to use the regular hole as per regular pencils.

When I start the sketch, I draw shapes negatively with

the outside colour then I rough in the shadows. Super

detail is not needed, this can be handled when the

sketch is wetted using the water brush with only

clear water. 

After another 10 minutes

I was having so much fun I decided to wet the sketch and

attempt to finish it. I was able to get the food, placemat

and plate done, but still not the drink. Again these

watercolour pencils are awesome and quick.

Final 10 minutes

Well at this point I just had to sketch in and wet in the

ice tea drink. I had prior experience drawing these

ice tea cans, but last time I did the sketch all with

blue fountain pen ink. I believe the sketch is shown

somewhere on this blog :-)

I am reasonably happy with the results of 40 minutes total and learned a lot today. I will record these new ideas in my journal under lessons learned.

Did I say "These watercolour pencils are awesome!"

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