Toucan - Coloured Pencil Painting

My Toucan is finished ... I have used Fabriano Artistico watercolour paper and Polychromos coloured pencils.   I am pretty happy with it and my feather work is getting better, although I didn't quite achieve the nice curve of his shoulder.     Anyway this is just a quick post ... have some tangly news for you all next week.  Cheers for now ... Jane x  

Edit to add:  The correct name for this bird is a Keel Billed Toucan ... I used Faber-Castell Polychromos artists' colour pencils on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed Extra White Watercolour Paper - 300gsm.

Once again my photo reference was taken by Tambako

An Update

The Macaw is finished....for now!

The Toucan has had some more done ... not there yet.

And I started a Lion's eye ... this will also give me some good practise at doing fur close up.  This one has a long long way to go yet!


Enjoy looking ... Jane x

Drawing

 I spent the weekend playing with pencils ... love!

This is a tulip I drew with Prismacolor pencils in my "flower journal" .... my first real attempt at drawing water droplets.   The first layer is blended with Zest It.

A beautiful alpaca drawn in Graphite.  I loved that he had a bit of straw sticking out of his mouth - vcute!

Just had approval to use this beautiful boy's name
"Middle Earth Gandalf "    .... now isn't that special for a beautiful white Alpaca.

Still Taking Leave - but wanted to Share This

 I needed a break from all that is Zentangle and Quilting ... so I picked up my coloured pencils (Prismacolor this time), a bottle of Zest It Pencil Blend and a journal that I had made from Fabriano Artistico Watercolour paper.

I had previously done a watercolour wash on all the pages with different colours and then spattered watercolour paint wash with a brush onto the pages - some I used rock salt as well.  This gave me a fantastic background to do some pencil paintings.

This is the front page ... you have to know that I did not have flowers to copy from ... I copied a line drawing and coloured from the heart, how I recall these flowers to look. So they may not be botanically correct.   That is okay - because it is a journal of my favourite flowers!

 This is a little way into the book ... on the Pink page.

The yellow page ... I love daisys

All of these Pencil Paintings were done with a base of colour, a layer of Zest It Pencil Blend and then more layers of colour. 


I have had a restful weekend doing what I love to do  - draw - with colour!

Okay ... see you all in a week or so.

Cheers
Jane
x

Video Tutorial - Zest It Pencil Blend with Colour

What you have all been waiting for ... this video shows how I use the Zest It Pencil Blend to blend Prismacolor Pencils, Derwent Inktense Pencils and also a Generals Sketch & Wash graphite pencil.   The video does go for over 10 minutes though.   I also forgot to tell you that you can "sharpen" or "clean" your Paper Stump by using an emery board - the big ones with foam in the middle work well, or just use a piece of sand paper.  It is best to clean them when they are dry.    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9YNTatJVA

I couldn't upload the video to my blog ... if the link doesn't work you cut and paste it into your search engine it should take you to my video tutorial  -  I hope you enjoy this video. 

Happy Tangling for now ... Jane x

Tangle with Crayons & Zest It Pencil Blend

 My finished piece.

 I used Caran de'Ache watersoluable painting crayons and laid down three areas of colour - very lightly.

 I then used the Zest It Pencil Blend on the wide part of a blending stump and blended the individual areas - starting with the lighter yellow first.  Unfortunately my photos do not show the real picture - the blending was quite smooth to look at in person.

 I then drew some of my favourite tangle patterns, including one of my own - "Wiggle" (making it's debut here)

 I then added "bubbles" with my Prismacolor Verithin pencils - I love these as they keep a really nice fine point when sharpened.

 I then coloured in more of the actual tangle patterns  and the finished Tangle is at the very top of this posting .... this took me tops 15 minutes to do and I loved the colour play.  

 I thought I would do a quick visual guide for some of my pencils and how they work with the Zest It.

This one is my General's Sketch & Wash graphite pencil ... I first laid down a very quick graduated area of graphite, then used the Zest It Pencil Blend on the bottom half - the water soluable graphite has some really really good possibilities when shading some of my larger, more complex drawings.

You can see here I have done the same as the graphite but have used some of my colour pencils and crayons.   Click on the image to get a better view.

Now I have worked out how to do quick little videos ... I will work on one over this next weekend on blending with pencils and Zest It.  I can't wait to have an interrupted day of playing with my pens and pencils.

I hope you have enjoyed this rather long post ... see you next week with another video.

Happy Tangling for now ... Jane x