Summer objects are so colorful and summer light is so clear (most of the time) ---it's going to be fun drawing this month. Here I've used my trusty Cretacolor Aquamonoliths and, though I seem to be the only person on the planet who uses them, I do love them. Imagine drawing with a soft graphite pencil, only, miraculously, the lines you create are in color! That's the way the Cretacolors feel to me. I mostly use them dry.
Tomorrow, I'm going to make a similar drawing of these items using my Caran d'Ache watercolor crayons. I can't wait to compare the two.
Hi all! Oh, good, Jan and Linda---two more Cretacolor compatriots, with Katherine as one in waiting, perhaps. They're pretty different from other wc colored pencils, aren't they? Less watery somehow. (Even when you use water with them.) Pedro, Teri, Linda, Lin, thanks for your kind comments. Marly, happy 4th of the 7th to you, too.
Posted by: Laura | July 04, 2006 at 09:45 AM
Not having them means my fingers are also not practised at spelling them - MUST remember to use the preview function!!! ;)
Posted by: Katherine | July 04, 2006 at 07:12 AM
Not having Creat Monoliths over here, I'm looking forward to having an experimental scribble with them when visting the USA this month.
Posted by: Katherine | July 04, 2006 at 07:11 AM
Hah. Now I can go to bed, now that I have made pilgrimage to Nosy's gallery! Happy 4th.
Posted by: marlyat2 | July 03, 2006 at 09:59 PM
Laura, I don't know what these pencils are all about like the colors of them. Going to look them up.
Hope youre 4th and new month are a vast mass of fire works!
Linda Pa
Posted by: Linda | July 03, 2006 at 09:34 PM
I've got a set, too -- based on your recommendations! I just need to devote more time to using them, but they are wonderfully weighty in one's hand, which feels good, and they have a lovely line. They did not, however, make me magically draw as well as you do. I had so HOPED ... oh well.
:-)
Posted by: Linda | July 03, 2006 at 07:35 PM