Wax Bloom

I expect the next update will be the finished drawing.

Lincoln  | Carbon Pencil on Cold Press Ill. Board | 8 x 10″ 

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Progress:

Lincoln | Carbon Pencil on Cold Press Ill. Board | 8 x 10″ 

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A bit more detail on the left side of the canvas, starting on to his other eye.

Lincoln | Carbon Pencil on Cold Press Ill. Board | 8 x 10″ 

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After finishing Clara, Profile, I wanted to try another Carbon Pencil drawing, but one with substantially more contrast.  All of the pieces I have lined up are begging to be done in colored pencil, though so I thought I’d try a historical figure. 

 Can you tell who it is yet?

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Not many drawings survived my college years – I either lost them, ruined them somehow, gesso’d over them to re-use the support, or gave them away. This is one I’ve always liked a lot and held onto these many years. If I recall correctly, the subject was my roommate’s grandfather. 

Colored Pencil & Acrylic on Cold Press Ill. Board, 11 x 17″ 

 As an aside, the colored pencils I used here were the now discontinued Spectracolors, which I preferred over Primsacolors at the time. I still have the set in the closet. I think there may be some white conté crayon in this piece, too.

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It felt like it took forever, but here it is.

Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 11″ 

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Slowly but surely this one comes along…slowly, slowly, slowly.

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 11″ 

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So I’ll bet you’ve been wondering the entire time I’ve been working on this just what Jan would look like were we to hang uncooked bacon from the side of her face. Behold!

(Don’t worry, those are just the initial layers of her hand – it’ll look better any day now…I hope.)

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Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8 x 11″

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