Painting 33

Ref 878.-   Mixed media.- Watercolor pencils /graphite pencils

There are differences in the watercolor pencils. I have the Staedtler and the Derwent Graphitint and really like both.  I use ALL of these and find that it depends on the paper I'm using, the subject I'm painting and sometimes just the mood I'm in as to which pencils I use. The ones I tend to use the most are the Derwents. I would recommend getting small sets to start (no larger than a set of 24) and experiment. Don't forget that you can mix pigments just as you do with tube paints -- so you really don't need a huge number of pencils Final result of this painting Warning.- Yoga has been known to cause health and hapiness

  How I did it;
The tonal blend of pencil watercolor on dry paper without water and then with water added. You can see from this painting the strength of tone you can achieve.

Step 1 watercolor area, brush painting basically with flesh and orange
and then watercolor pencil sketching --- in the lightest spots I raised the paint with a clean-wet, round hard brush

Step 2  with a wet brush I start to paint the dark áreas, where the pencil below also start to dissolve and blend with it

Step 3.- As the painting progress, I start to spray wáter in a selective way, raising the paint where I need the lightest zones with a dry paper/napkin

 

Step 4.- I re-define the main basic edges of the figure with pencil watercolor again and wet selectively accordingly

 

Step 5.- I start to add light into the figure with opaque watercolor (gouache) and remarking with graphite pencils mixing and blending  accordingly

 

Step 6.- The final stage is the artistic touch, I spray wáter blending with gouache color to mist the paint , which inmediately I clean with a napkin, in zones I do not want to, and add additional complemetary colors to make it more vivid and interesting