Red Pear
watercolor pencil on 90lb Stonehenge paper
5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
I used Koh-i-noor aquarell pencils with a Niji water brush. You’d have to be a masochist to use water-based media on paper that is not well suited to it, when you don’t even like–or have any skill with–watercolor in the first place. Just sayin’…
I do really like these brushes, though. They’re affordable, portable, and they actually work pretty well (considering I have no clue what I’m doing). I need to get a flat one, for washes, because the little pointy one I have is absolutely the wrong tool for the job.
Oh, and I had way too many light sources while trying to work on this, which is something else I don’t really recommend. Another thing I don’t recommend is setting your big box of pencils on the couch next to you, when you know that the dog is guaranteed to want to lie down there. Anyone for a game of 72 Pick-up?
red paper boat 