Rooster on Duralar
A third rooster in less than a week. I’m on a roll.
Tag: bird
Early Birthday Present, Gold Stylus
I always get my presents early, and this year, my husband bought me this 24K gold stylus for metalpoint drawings. The paper is a clay-coated paper from silverpointweb.com. I don’t know if it’s any particular brand. It picks up marks from pretty much everything but appears to erase well, thank goodness.
I’m looking forward to using gold on different surfaces. It looks like a warm gray but has a gold reflection when the light hits it just right.
A Few Roosters
Well, that didn’t work out quite the way I planned. The one I thought I’d like, the rooster on the sanded paper, turned out muddy in the end with a blah background, and the one I wasn’t certain of, on Duralar, found a home (my husband asked for it). So now I need to draw another rooster. No trouble there—it’s a favorite subject.
Roosters in Colored Pencil
A little bird told me that someone may want a rooster drawing, so I’m making a few attempts in colored pencil, one on Uart sanded paper and one on Duralar. I like both surfaces quite a bit, but I think I botched the background on the sanded paper.
I think I found the all-time best hand-held pencil sharpener as long as the pencil is fairly standard sized. It’s the Musgrave NJK double-bladed sharpener. Honestly, I can’t believe how pleased I am with this purchase. It’s like butter. If it could fit larger pencils, it’d be perfect. My Caran d’Ache luminance pencils just barely fit.