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Sam McWilliams commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
It’s also helpful and fun to practice the toning with just the Dark Sepia Polychromos pencil. It’s so soft and smooth on the hot press smooth paper. And as you progress, you’ll be toning with different Polychromos pencils. These look great!!! Look at that glow in the brown range one. 🙂
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Sam McWilliams commented on Linda Proctor's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Keep up the good work, Linda. In art school BFA I think we had to draw about 10,000 tone bars.
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Sam McWilliams commented on Linda Proctor's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Branch portraits are the best portraits. 🙂 I hope to host a show of just twig drawings one day.
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Sam McWilliams commented on Linda Proctor's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Bonus because it’s fun to think of Whoopie pies. 🙂
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Sam McWilliams commented on Sam McWilliams's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
@petapumpkineater I think I worked on this for 3 days! A looooong time. I am a very slow draw-er. This plant, mamaki, really drew me in and held me close and wouldn’t let go. It’s used for tea in Hawaii, so I had the pleasure of drying and steeping the leaves as well and enjoying a lovely, calming tea.
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Sam McWilliams commented on Renata's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
I adore it as is. What do you think @pgthompson
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Sam McWilliams commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Again welcome Peta! Apologies that I didn’t catch that you were a first time poster. Our comments are always meant to be helpful and encouraging. So I’ll echo Pam to say please keep posting! You have joined a welcoming. supportive and friendly community, and as Pam said, we learn so much from sharing our work with each other. And yes! – you have a…[Read more]
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Sam McWilliams commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Meaning you can type that here in the comment’s box and hit comment and it will post the comment and send the message
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Sam McWilliams commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Yes – welcome Peta! Lovely to meet you here. You can type @ and then a person’s name, a drop down menu will appear and you can select the person’s name, and it will send them a message. For example if I type @pam , the pull down menu appears and I can select @pgthompson – you’ll see her name and photo there
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Linda Proctor commented on Linda Proctor's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
I chose this view because I thought I could see each distinctive tone but 3, and 4 now look too close. Then I saw all my rejected tone bars in the photo. I think I will tone a cylinder next. Lol.
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I chose this view because I thought I could see each distinctive tone but 3, and 4 now look too close. Then I saw all my rejected tone bars in the photo. I think I will tone a cylinder next. Lol.
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Lol. Now do one with only a ball point pen, 🙂
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Oooooo a challenge????
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Peta McDonald commented on Elizabeth Simonson's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Oh my goodness! This is incredible. If I can get even a fraction of the skill you have, I’ll be a happy lady.
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Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
I’m having some problems with the colours smudging up my detail work… If you have any tips I’d love to hear them please.
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Peta McDonald added a Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
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I’m having some problems with the colours smudging up my detail work… If you have any tips I’d love to hear them please.
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These are stunning. I love seeing how captivated you are! I don’t think you are, but don’t use any graphite beyond the initial rough drawing phase. Graphite smears easily when blended with colour pencils. We just use it for or light initial drawing or “map” to follow. We go in with a very sharp polychromos for details. We keep a clean sheet of…[Read more]
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@sam-mcwilliams Aha… that explains it. Very helpful, thank you again! I was using graphite for some of these as I seem to be able to get a sharper point and finer lines… but perhaps I need to be more patient with the polychromos pencils and learn to use them better. The three on the right are all graphite… with a tiny bit of polychromos on…[Read more]
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These are wonderful Peta!!!! One thing that helps a lot to make the edges crisp when you use polychrome pencils is to use a Verithin pencil at the end. If you trace around the perimeter of the subject it seals the edge and helps prevent smudging, etc. Verithin pencils are made by Prismacolor and are a hard wax pencil. They come in a whole range of…[Read more]
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@doug-milne Thank you very much, I’ll look them up. I agree that it would make a nice difference to have a fine line on the edges… good idea. This has been a fabulous week of drawing with a steep learning curve. I appreciate all your help and feedback. I’ve framed this one as it feels like my first ‘real drawing’ and I find such joy in this…
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I am so glad you framed it Peta! When I first saw this piece I thought it should be framed! I love black/white and tonal artwork! Love that the arc bars are included!!!!
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This looks wonderful framed!!
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Yes – so very wonderful framed – excellent framing job – I love it.
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Oh my goodness! This is incredible. If I can get even a fraction of the skill you have, I’ll be a happy lady.
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Beauty! What a great story here – they have such great character! Beautiful colours and I love the way you handled the water and the jar.
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This is great. I love the lone fallen petal.
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Linda Proctor commented on Linda Proctor's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
7, 8,9 killing me! Lol.
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Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Also, her tone bars are so smooth, but mine are always rough, despite sharpening my pencils all the time. Could it be the paper?
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Peta McDonald commented on Peta McDonald's Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
Any tips on toning with colour? I just got my new polychromos pencils in the mail yesterday and am having a lot of trouble getting the lighter tones as they are such strong colours.
Wendy uses Sepia in her beginner videos but I am finding it really difficult to get good colour on top while still holding onto the lighter areas… it’s such a…[Read more]
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7, 8,9 killing me! Lol.
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Why is 6 afraid of 7? Because 7, 8, 9!
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Bwahahahaha!!!!
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Peta McDonald added a Photo 3 years, 1 month ago
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Any tips on toning with colour? I just got my new polychromos pencils in the mail yesterday and am having a lot of trouble getting the lighter tones as they are such strong colours. Wendy uses Sepia in her beginner videos but I am finding it really difficult to get good colour on top while still holding onto the lighter areas… it’s such a strong…[Read more]
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Also, her tone bars are so smooth, but mine are always rough, despite sharpening my pencils all the time. Could it be the paper?
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Definitely helps to have the smooth hot press paper. Wendy likes the Stonehenge Aqua Legion Hot Press.
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Wendy starts people out with the dark sepia, but as you progress you can use other colours as your “grisaille” or shadow toning layer. Other shadow toning colours to try include earth green and burnt ochre for yellow subjects. Red violet for red subjects. It helps to hold the pencil further back and practice making light strokes/marks. You’re…[Read more]
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@sam-mcwilliams , I’d love to come to the beginner workshop if the timezone works for me! I’m in Australia. Can you please point me in the direction of the details? Thanks heaps. And as for the paper, I have HEAPS of cold press stuff here because I’ve tried watercolour in the past… so I went online and bought hot press, but it’s still textured.…[Read more]
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@sam-mcwilliams I found the link to the course! I’ll see if it’s possible. 🙂 Thanks.
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