CREATIVE WATERCOLOR PENCIL

 WEEK  2 SOME BACKGROUND OPTIONS                           MARCH 9

  Adding Backgrounds using watercolor pencils

  Techniques: color mixes, compositions, and application techniques for watercolor pencil backgrounds            

  Colors Mixes: using color analogues, complements, and dark mixes

  Optional additions: “Magnus”, color blocks, watercolor paints

  Also, you’re welcome to try my Caran d’Ache Neocolor II Pastel watercolor Pastels if interested  

WEEK 3 LOW INTENSITY SUBTLE TRANSITIONS and TEXTURE                      MARCH 16

CAST SHADOWS in WATERCOLOR PENCIL

Subject: Sprouted onion bulb

Techniques: achieving subtle, low intensity color with watercolor pencil

               texture and detail with gray or with graphite pencil

               injecting color in your cast shadows

Optional additions: graphite pencils, Graphitint specialty watercolor pencils by Derwent

WATERCOLOR PENCILS USED:  

 In the Leaves: ivory,  cream, earth green yellow, light green, light yellow glaze, and a touch  of cadmium yellow.  I used a touch of Permanent Prismacolor artichoke a  bit to accent on the edges.

 In the Skin: cream, burnt ochre, and touches of pale geranium lake, raw umber,olive green yellow, and the Permanent Prismacolor artichoke. 

 In the Bulb: cream in parts, ivory in parts.  I Added raw umber, small touches burnt ochre, and Permanent Prismacolor artichoke.

In the Root End: mainly burnt ochre, with touches of pale geranium lake.  Once I had the  general shapes and angles in those colors, I added pops of color using  middle purple pink, Graphitint Juniper, and raw umber.   I added a bit of warmth using cadmium orange and light yellow glaze and  the top and added a little graphite pencil to deepen the value and  suggest detail.  This could also easily be achieved with a deeper value  brown or gray watercolor pencil. 

 Shadow touches: middle  purple pink, helioblue red, as well as raw umber and burnt ochre. I  also used the greens in small amounts at the end to echo the leaves.

Just a few spots added artichoke.  

WEEK 4  COMBINING WATERCOLOR PENCILS With WATERCOLOR PAINT          MARCH 23

Combining watercolor paint washes with watercolor pencils

Or continuing with watercolor pencils alone if you prefer

Subject: Bromeliad

Techniques: watercolor paint or watercolor pencil washes

               Accenting, injecting fun color, and detail with watercolor pencil

Optional additions: Inktense specialty watercolor pencils by Derwent

           Watercolor paints

 WATERCOLOR PENCILS:  pale geranium lake, Derwent watercolor pencil madder carmine, dark red,  chrome oxide, burnt ochre, permanent green olive, cadmium orange, dark  cadmium orange, fuchsia

OR I’m highlighting the option of Inktense Specialty Watercolor Pencils: poppy, tangerine, chili, baked earth, apple

OPTIONAL WATERCOLOR PAINTS: quinacridone red, burnt sienna, sap green, quinacridone gold, permanent alizarin crimson

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WEEK 5 ADDITIONAL OPTIONS—CHOOSE YOUR PROJECT                                     APRIL 6

Subjects: mushroom, iris, or hydrangea 

         or choose your own subject

Techniques: combining watercolor paint, watercolor pencil in a more complex painting

Watercolor pencil on a claybord surface*

 WATERCOLOR PENCILS USED: I used a variety of low intensity colors.  Some of favorite in this  piece include light ultramarine blue+raw umber, lightultramarine  blue+Intense dark chocolate, middle purple pink, raw umber, burnt ochre,  and a variety of blues and violets.

In the green areas—earth green yellow, Inktense apple, light ultramarine, Inktense Sea blue (which is a gorgeous color!). 

HIGHLIGHTING Derwent Graphitints:  Sage is nice. Cloud  gray is nice too, especially combined with middle purple pink, with  Inktense Sea blue, or with lt ultramarine.  The cloud gray deepens and  enriches the color for a smoky, lower intensity dark value.

Favorite blues in this piece: Inktense Sea blue, light ultramarine, and a little helioblue red.   Prismacolor Permanent colored pencil violet blue is great for accents. 

Violet and purple areas: middle purple pink, fuchsia, red violet, and Prismacolor Permanent Tuscan red.  

Gray areas:  I used mainly cold gray III and IV on the claybord but cold gray II  and a little warm or cold gray I on the paper demonstration.  I liked  Graphitint cloud gray on each. I  also sometimes leaned these areas blue  with light ultramarine.  

WATERCOLOR PENCILS USED IN PAPER DEMONSTRATION: light  yellow glaze, chrome yellow, burnt ochre, light ultramarine,  ultramarine, light red violet, red violet, middle purple pink, purple  violet, dark indigo, earth green yellow, permanent green olive, chrome  oxide green.

WATERCOLOR PENCILS USED IN CLAYBORD DEMONSTRATION: Inktense Violet (just in touches.  It’s beautiful but very strong), Purple Violet, Ultramarine Blue,

Light Ultramarine Blue, Middle Purple Pink, Earth Green Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Light Yellow Glaze, and 2H-4H Graphite Pencil.

WEEK 6 CONTINUING AND SHARING                              APRIL 13

Subjects: we will continue with your project or you can start another

*Claybord by Ampersand is a multimedia smooth panel 

                   Made by applying clay layers to a wood board.