In drawing and mixed media classes this week, among other things, we were working with little still lifes of fruits. Of course it's hard to draw them without knowing how dark and/or light parts and pieces of them are. So we started by testing the softness and hardness of various pencils and then creating value scales like the one below. It goes from white on the left to black on the right with all the intermediate steps in value in between....
Then, using little fruits each person made a small study of apples and pears, trying to use the full range of values in their drawings....
It looks to me now like I could have gotten a bit darker in overall value....
In mixed media class we attempted to create a drawing of the same fruits using Prismacolor colored pencils in only process colors: canary yellow, process red and aquamarine. By mixing these three colored pencils, you can create a full range of colors as in this drawing. It requires some patience, layering one color on top of another, mixing them together to get just the right color and value.....
Above is my attempt. Give it a try--it's a challenge!
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