I’m simply addicted to pencils now. Here’s one I did in mid-April:
We just returned from a trip to Cuba, which is why it’s been so quiet around here. Look for the Cuban influence in succeeding posts. This yuma had a great time.
Another page (unfinished) of the portfolio project
I’ve been so enamored of the pencil since Amity Parks’ workshop. I’m starting to think about moving back to the wet stuff. I still like drawing the letters, though; I may take that back to gouache and sumi ink.
Portfolio project
Remember this post? wherein I claimed to be making progress. Hahahahahaha.
I’ve scrapped those pages, and the minuscule progress I’ve made since then, to make it a pencil-only portfolio. Here are two completed pages. We will make portfolios for our projects in August, so I really do have to get cooking on these.
More pencil work … after Amity
I’m loving my new pencil journal. Here’s a page I started right after the workshop but just finished yesterday morning. Really, the lines are straight. It’s just that the page was folded back and set on a cushioned chair.
A Sharp Pencil and a Keen Eye
That was the name of the two-day workshop that Amity Parks taught to Big Sky Scribes weekend before last in Great Falls. Focused on pen techniques, it was a jam-packed but easily digestible workshop.
I came home inspired to start a pencil journal similar to the ones that Amity showed us. Here are the first few pages of mine:
My Woman’s March poster design in use
I was pleasantly surprised to see my poster design picked up and used in marches across the country on January 20. And really surprised to see it in a conservative article covering the march:
Also, tweeted here in the US and retweeted as far away as New Zealand. And picked up and used in Facebook headers.
Poster submission for Women’s March on Washington
In association with the Woman’s March on Washington, there was a call for posters and banners. The deadline was today. Here’s my poster submission, done in pencil, scanned and stitched together in Photoshop:
More pencil lettering, now with a wash pencil
Back in my studio, I’m pleased to have most of my gear unpacked, and the spilled ink cleaned up. And I’m also pleased to get back to a daily lettering practice. In the conference goody bag was a General’s Sketch & Wash Pencil No. 588. When I was unpacking, it caught my eye, so I lettered a page of Strathmore Drawing 400 using it. Then I went back in with a Pentel water brush to see what would happen. I’ll probably do more on it later, but right now the kitchen is calling …
As usual, click on the image for a closer look.
Daily lettering – pencil Roman capitals – day 10
Laboring onward, I got a little off track about line 7 of page 14, but I ended up at the bottom of page 15 back at just monoline Roman capitals with a little pressure and release. I’m ready to break out of the lines soon. Maybe.
Daily lettering – pencil Roman capitals
These letters are slowly seeping into my kinetic memory. Spacing is still problematic (story of my life), and 3 o’clock to 6 o’clock on O, Q, C, G, D is just not happening with any regularity at all. That area of the circle is like trying to scratch the itch between my shoulder blades: I can get there, but not natural and it’s not elegant.