Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 9-1/2″ x 12″), May 2008.
We spent four days in Vancouver last week and had a very nice time. I had my sketch kit with me on all of our day trips in and out of the city but only managed to sketch from the terrace of [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Vancouver Plein Air Cityscapes
Posted in Works on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moleskine Exchange International
Posted in Works on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Visit the Moleskine Exchange International blog where eight of us are working together on a project with Moleskine sketchbooks that will get sent from artist to artist, with each person contributing to each sketchbook in turn. The posts at the MEI blog are far more frequent and lively than what I’ve got here so check back [...]
Outdoor Sketches
Posted in Works on May 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 5″ x 7″), May 2008.
I spent several hours outdoors yesterday sketching alongside the East River near our apartment here in New York. It was a beautiful day but very windy and I had to hang on to my field easel at times to keep it [...]
Mt. Fuji Study
Posted in Works on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Sennelier La Carte (sienna tone, 6″ x 12″), May 2008.
I don’t often work on abrasive paper but occasionally get the urge. As Wolf Kahn notes when writing about his pastel work, these papers tend to eat up pastel aggressively and can constrain the range of techniques you make use of. [...]
Landscape Study
Posted in Works on May 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani handmade Velata paper (light cream tone, 7″ x 10-1/4″), May 2008.
This study was a lot of fun to work on. Although the handmade paper I used is similar in color to Magnani’s Velata woven-textured paper, which is made on a cylinder mold and is the paper I use most frequently, the handmade sheets are [...]
