Scales and Scales

I would call my day of learning a huge success. Practicing value scales with individual colors taught me a lot about mixing paint and using water. I also learned a great deal about the differences between alizarin crimson, cadmium red, and permanent rose.

The lizard is an experiment in mixing watercolor and watercolor pencils to suggest complicated textures and shifting colors. It isn't my favorite piece; but there are a lot of things going on that I really like. That eyeball is sufficiently creepy.

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Ice Skating Characters

A Competent Profile

As I start to become more familiar with proportions and measurements for the various faces I attempt to draw, I am starting to wonder how to make a more complete portrait with my limited time. Do I stick to lines? Do I bring a brush and some ink? Which lines should I include? Which shapes are important to represent? Maybe this is a good time to look at the work other artists have done and try to work out some of their methods.

Coat and Hat

Warm, grey marker and flair tip pen. I thought I would try combining these too together, but they seem to interact in weird ways. The hard, black edges seem to really point out the proportional problems here. Tomorrow, I would like to try working in reverse - adding the grey marker after the hard lines. It doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference, but it just might be the key to making this combination a success.

Rainbow Bisque

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