Sun Today: February 2013

Monday, 25 February 2013

All this time I've had Derwent's Metallic Pencils

and hadn't read on the tin that they are also water soluble.

Derwent Inktense Pencils on rough-grain watercolour paper.

Pencil on rough-grain watercolour paper.

(Delayed post due to hot weather.)

The joys of having a new tool to experiment with : - )

Derwent Inktense Pencils on rough-grain watercolour paper.

(Delayed posting due to hot weather.)

I splurged in the art shop last weekend :-)

Trying Derwent's watersoluble Inktense Blocks

and a waterbrush - it has water in the handle

that you squeeze down into the nylon tip.

When its dry it's fixed, so you can add more drawing/painting

over your original layer without changing the original layer.

You can also use these on silk - but I haven't yet.

Links to Derwent's webpages for Inktense Blocks and Waterbrushes

There are lots of demos on YouTube

I have a new pair of glasses.

They have graduated lenses (which I've not had before).

I can see long-distance OK and reading-distance OK,

but I keep losing the computer-distance.

I figured playing with Painter would provide

some happy practice learning to focus on the screen.

This is based on one of Carla Sonheim's free on-line tutorials

I'm grateful that I live in a time and place

where I can have glasses.

Having coffee with my sister at the cafe at the Museum today,

she asked how my sun project was going,

I said I'd been slacking off, so

she shuffled some sugar sticks into a sun for me.

Thanks April!