'Small'
How wonderful is today?! Beautiful sunny spring in the Southern Hemisphere topped off by Covid restrictions easing off. We can now travel out of Melbourne! How great is that, well done all of us to get this thing under control and bring our numbers down to double donuts. 🍩🍩
So I know many of you will be outside celebrating, but don't neglect your drawing board. An hour or two once a week will keep your pencil muscles toned up and keep you in condition to return to classes in 2021. Just like KM has done with her submissions this week.
KM: Small Silver Stuff
For her first drawing, KM raided the junk drawer and found small silver items under 8 cm. She has used a 110gsm paper with Derwent silver grey, gunmetal grey and metallic silver and pewter, backed up with Staedtler pencils. With these pencils KM has captured the shine of the metal well, observing the tonal contrasts. I especially like the bulldog clip and how it is drawn - nice lost and found edges create the shape without resorting to an overstated outline.
KM's second drawing went smaller scale. She has used a Staedtler F and F5 (?) as well as a Musgrave Genuine Tennessee Red Cedar Graphite which is lighter in tone than the Staedtler pencils. Remember when I told you all about the Pencilly website? Well KM purchased this Cedar pencil just to see if it does smell nice - and it does!
This is a nice composition of three different paper clips. I love the concept and the design works well. Its a great little drawing, and as I said above, use of high contrast tone married with lost and found edges create interest and metallic shine. Good work!
NEWS!
AGRA Medallion exhibition should be going ahead in December - watch this blog for final details, hope to see you all there!
Neil Wallace Printmaker supplies in Fitzroy is having their annual sale HERE. You can pick up some real savings on quality paper. They deliver and have great products. I like to buy in bulk - but if a full pack of 10 is too much for you why not get together with a few of your classmates/art friends and split the cost. It can be up to 30% off on some papers! Bargains galore - I recommend P326.08 Fabriano HP 300gsm white.
Not to bang on about it, but DO have a look at that Pencilly website. Christmas is just around the corner and I am sure you can find a gift or two for yourself or an arty friend. Plus it is just darn fun to look at all the pretty pencils.
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