Some fruit, heavily burnished.

The photo shows a handsome crow. My sketch makes it look a bit heavy.

Most of the animal photos I’ve been using come from Paint My Photo.

Many of my quick sketches are in a Strathmore gray toned sketchbook using a set of Prismacolor pencils bought twenty years ago. They’re no longer made by Berol, so once I use up this set of twelve, they’re gone. And that white is very nearly gone. I have Caran D’Ache Luminance and Pablo sets, so I’m in no way suffering for lack of fine pencils, but it will be sad all the same.