Color lives patiently in the pencil, and when called, lands with sensitivity on paper, only.įinding myself conveniently at my desk for another day, I did some art hunting for colored pencil drawings, and I have a few new V. Nothing spilled, dripped, spread, smeared or crusted dry and ruined. No paint or charcoal dust in the keyboard. If you get a set of pencils with a good amount of pigment, and paper with enough tooth to allow the colors to build and blend, you have yourself a delightfully tidy art kit that’s great for travel, or for this continued quarantine, for drawing while sitting at a desk. I’ve found that each brand of pencil offers a different “feel.” Some are rich and buttery like fine oil paints, others are soft and crumbly like delicate soft pastels. Here I am, after countless pigment sticks and fluids, I’m back to the simple thing I started with all those years ago. It took a year like 2020, but yes I’ve come round. I’m sorry to say that with this tiny impasse, I gave them up entirely.Īfter 30 years I’ve rediscovered pencils. I was to a sad end, though, because I hadn’t yet learned that the core of a pencil is breakable, so after dropping them on the floor a few dozen times I was blocked by the frustration of trying to sharpen the wood away from shafts as they cracked and crumbled with every 1/4 inch removed. The colors were limited, but the pigment was rich and vibrant. It wasn’t the “thing” in the drawing that I loved, it was watching the pigment grab onto the paper fibers. Then I got a set of 12 Derwent, and made some of the first drawings that I ever liked. I figured all colored pencils were wuss sticks. The colors looked exciting in the box, but for soft paper they were way too hard, and had more wax than pigment. Oils, pastels, graphite, watercolor, ink, even conte is common in museums and galleries, but colored pencils seem to be a material outgrown as soon as any of the others are acquired.Īs a kid I had a disappointment set of pencils. I look at a lot of art, and I don’t tend to see colored pencil drawings popping up in the mix of esteemed or daring artworks.
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