{"id":1715,"date":"2019-10-10T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2019-10-10T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:29:07","slug":"using-black-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=1715","title":{"rendered":"Using Black Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Conte Pierre Noire pencils for multiple sketches as I keep filling pages as part of #sketchendeavour on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1711\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1711\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20191010_141034343_ios-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1-1024x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1711\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_141034343_ios-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought the Conte Sketching Kit, which has several dark pencils as well as a few graphite and pastels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1712\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1712\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2899,2049\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1570358930&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20191006_154850018_ios-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1-1024x724.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1712\" width=\"2899\" height=\"2049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1.jpg 2899w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191006_154850018_ios-1-1024x724.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2899px) 100vw, 2899px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After sketching this one of my horse, Pete, I used his same pose in a barn painting. I used pastels and dark drawing pencils on Pastelmat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1713\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1713\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,1118\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20191007_194745963_ios-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1-1024x795.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1713\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007_194745963_ios-1-1024x795.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I needed to start new new sketchbook as my small 6&#8243;x8&#8243; Stillman &amp; Birn is full. I decided to use a bigger size, so I&#8217;m now working on 9&#8243;x12&#8243; paper. I think it&#8217;s a great size for landscapes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1714\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?attachment_id=1714\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3423,2704\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone SE&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1570692164&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20191010_122243667_ios-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1-1024x809.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1714\" width=\"3423\" height=\"2704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1.jpg 3423w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191010_122243667_ios-1-1024x809.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3423px) 100vw, 3423px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using the Conte Pierre Noire pencils for multiple sketches as I keep filling pages as part of #sketchendeavour on Instagram. I bought the Conte Sketching Kit, which has several dark pencils as well as a few graphite and pastels. After sketching this one of my horse, Pete, I used his same pose in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,407,420],"tags":[356,488,415,408,425,400,489],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pastel","category-pencil","tag-art","tag-conte","tag-drawing","tag-pastel","tag-pastelmat","tag-pencil","tag-pierre-noire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-rF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}