My thoughts and progress about my works

I hope you enjoy my ramblings about the inspiration for my artwork and the process it takes to create it. I am moving from Blogspot to just the blog on this website, so in the transfer of some of the previous blogs, articles may not show the correct date.  I will note the correct date in the body of the blog.

3 Peppers Workshop

10/10/2018 11:05:17 AM | By Randi Mackey | Comment on this

This is the subject of the first Colored Pencil Workshop for Fine Art that I instructed.  I look forward to doing many more.  The drawing was completed on Stonehenge White 100 lb paper.  We used many layers of blues, reds, greens, white, yellows to accomplish the shadows and highlights in the drawing.  You can see my notes along the right side of this drawing so I could use them in the written instructions.  The black was created starting with a very light layer of black on the white paper, then indigo, deep red, violet and another layer of black, continuing with [...]

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