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Date: fall, 2001 (yes, I know it says "spring 2002" on the picture, but that's wrong) Another picture for my Ryman Program drawing class. The picture is about 5.5"x8" in real life, smaller than what I usually did for my homework for that class, but at the time I'd thought that that was okay, since the teacher had told us that, since it was colored pencil, it didn't have to be very big. No one else showed up with anything bigger than 6"x6". One of life's tragedies on my part, I guess. Anyway, we ended up having a guest artist that day, someone who worked mainly with colored pencils (she had a 72 Prismacolor pencil set... I want!!). She told us about techniques for working in colored pencil, and said that colored pencil really wasn't for anything bigger than... eh, 12"x12". And I nearly burst into tears, because during the previous week (all of these classes were on Saturdays) I'd started on this huge (i.e., 13"x23") Prismacolor colored pencil still life for my AP art class. I did eventually finish that still life, it just took me a month or more, and my fingers were ready to mutiny near the end. The bowl here is one that I'd thrown in my advanced ceramics class; it's actually white, not blue, but I figured it could be blue from the reflected color of the cloth. Speaking of the cloth, it wasn't blue (turquoise) either... |
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