Lanyon Quoit, Penwith, Cornwall, charcoal and coloured pencil. Vivien Blackburn
I decided to work further on the charcoal sketch of Lanyon Quoit with coloured pencils - the mix of coloured pencil over charcoal is a recent discovery and I really like it for moody images.
The green is a little more moorland coloured and the reds glow a little more - it was hard to get a photo with the colour balance right. The clouds aren't quite that dark and the grass is a bit darker. There is a haze of purple about the clouds
Below is the original sketch.
better? worse? what do you think?
Comments
Beautiful.
It's only a light glaze of colour so the original marks show through clearly - the actual sketch is better than the photo. subtler and moodier
your comments have really cheered my day :>)
I like coloured pencils and grey mixed together.
annie
Pete it's less oppressive IRL - it was terribly hard to persuade the balance to work correctly :>(
I expect I'll experiment some more - I want to do a bigger version 24 or 30 inch at least.
Pete it's less oppressive IRL - it was terribly hard to persuade the balance to work correctly :>(
I expect I'll experiment some more - I want to do a bigger version 24 or 30 inch at least.
The black and white appeals to me so much for probably not-artistic reasons: it feels like a fantasy place - 1/2 rock, 1/2 mushrooms! I'd want to add pixies ...