Doodle #5

The first several doodles in this series were all done using very, very old coloured pencils that I've had hanging around for somewhere between 20 and 30 years. Needless to say, both the wood and the actual coloured pencil stuff inside was very dry and brittle. I'd been having problems with sharpening them, some of the pencils had split and were being held together with tape... they were a mess.

So yesterday glaurung went out and bought me a basic set of brand new artist's pencils, and a set of pastel pencils, which is a medium I haven't worked with since art class in high school. Cool stuff! And I have a booklet of all the colours that weren't in the basic set, so as soon as I decide which ones I want, I can get even more cool coloured pencils with a much broader palette.

So my drawings from here on will be either done with the nifty new artist's pencils (with space-age ergonomic grip, no less) or, once I get the feel of them, the pastel pencils. (unless I decide to do some not too labour intensive pen and ink work for this little experiment, that is)

I was so excited I did two drawings last night.

First, I drew some rocks. A pile of rocks, in fact. I like drawing rocks. I've drawn probably hundreds of rocks over the years, although I've only kept a couple of my rocks. I'm not sure why I like drawing rocks so much, but for some reason, I think they're fun to draw. So here's my latest bunch of rocks.

Doodle #6 - a bonus doodle

I was still feeling frisky, doodle-wise, when I finished my rockpile, so I thought I'd just do some free-form abstract doodling, and explore my new blue-purple palette options at the same time.