Time for an update!
I've completed two of the four realistic drawings I started this year. One was just accepted at the Salmagundi Club 48th annual open juried exhibition in NYC. I'm truly pleased and honored to be included for a second time in this exhibition. This drawing is my third piece in colored pencil, and it took hundreds of hours and months to complete. I'm not new to painting, but very new to colored pencil. Many challenges.
My favorite media to draw with are graphite and charcoal (you learn these in art school), and color work is always a challenge in realism, especially in colored pencil. You learn pretty quickly there is only so dark you can go with it and then it can't go any darker. I'm still experimenting to find a paper I love with it.
Realism is not for the faint of heart. Details matter, but so does artistic interpretation of the subject, no matter the medium. Even in graphite and charcoal, a recent drawing took 160 hours to complete. You don't crank these out at a rapid rate!
I'm really happy to have this work recognized.
I have just started my pieces for SAGA Mini Gems this fall. I'm also carving another Mokuhanga print and doing more printing with the blocks I have already carved. Always busy!
Winter Conservatory
Colored Pencil on Arches 300 Pound paper
15 x 22 inches
Finished carving the key block for this new Japanese print. Printing this week.
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