Garden with fish pond

This is one of the two unfinished, rained-out sketches from yesterday, now finished. The pond is in the garden of my friends S and K. I want to go back and draw it again and again.

Thanks to Katherine, the Colored Pencil Queen, I'm now trying non water-soluble colored pencils--her drawings are so lovely, I had to give them a go. Here  I'm using Faber-Castell Polychromos.   This is a wonderfully contemplative medium--you just put down stroke after stroke, color after color, and you end up with a kaleidoscopic effect, where nothing seems jarring or out of place.   Next time, I'll try for a bolder result, but the morning was like this, tranquil, still, softly colored.

Comments

[Margaret McCarthy Hunt]

You know I absolutely love all your stuff...but you have outdone yourself on this one...WOW!!! THe water is amazing!

[Katherine]

Sorry I've not been around Laura - lots to do, as I think you;re aware!

This is gorgeous - and you've picked a subject which has me intrigued on more than a few occasions. The problem is finding a pool with goos size fish which is quiet enough to sketch by. I think I'm going to Kew Temperate House in the dead of winter when it's raining and try the one there - they have lovely fish in their pool! :D

Glad to find you;re getting on with the polychromos - they are a very superior sort of coloured pencil!

[Laura]

Thank you, you all. I do want to go back and do more sketches of the fish, especially.

[Jan Blencowe]

Beautiful! I can almost see the goldfish move!! I hope you do go back again I'd love to see more of the same.

Jan

[Cin]

ahhh yes, makes you just take a deep breath and relax. . . wonderful

[Tam's garden]

Laura, I love it when I pop open your blog and see these tiny soft sketches, they are pretty undefineable. It is like seeing the outside of a package, it is pretty from outside but when I click on it to enlarge it, WOW! the details are spectacular!!!