Time Passages

April 1, 2006

I thought I would invite you to take a look at a sample of one of my pencil drawings. I did this little number of a Bearded Iris in less than an hour from William F. Powell's instructional drawing book. I must remind you before you look at this with a critical eye that I have had no formal training or instruction, I just enjoy the process of sketching.

Flowers make a good subject because I sketch the lines. As you can see here, I am just beginning to understand the dimension of shading and how it adds to the overall affect of the drawing.

I used a HB and 0.7mm mechanical pencil for the majority of the petal construction and a 2B for the shading. It was drawn on Crescent, cold pressed, rough, watercolor paper and then scanned into my computer. I hope to add color later on as I experiment with watercolor pencils and pastels but as of now, I enjoy the contrasts that pencil displays.


Jess35

Dell Canada