Finished!
Colored Pencil on Pastelbord, 8.5 x 14″
Pastelbord is most certainly my surface of choice for any future work. The amount of layers the gritty surface will accept are tantamount to cheating when compared to whats possible with Illustration Board or Mi-Teintes paper. If you’ve never worked with the stuff, I highly recommend you give it a try.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Jason Garber // Feb 19, 2008 at 11:38 am
Wow, Steve! Definitely one of your best pieces to date.
2 Rose // Feb 19, 2008 at 11:59 am
Lovely Steve. I recently found some pastelbord locally and picked it up. So it’s on the list. Why is it like cheating though? More layers? That seems like more work
. Did you find you had to press more firmly for it?
3 S.G. Chipman // Feb 19, 2008 at 12:16 pm
@Jason thanks!
@Rose No, I used the same pressue I always do, maybe even a little less.
Since its such a hard grit, its much more difficult to crush the tooth, so you have the luxury of working dark to light, and then back to dark, or use an underpainting technique.
It accepts color way longer than anything I’ve used before, and I love the fact that I can throw a white/cream flyaway hair over finished areas, for example, without having to put fixative over it first.
I guess what I am trying to say is its *much* more forgiving.
4 Rose // Feb 19, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Thanks Steve. It’s the forgiveness factor that has drawn me to vellum in the past – you can erase back to nothing with anything on it. I’m going to have to bump the pastelbord experiment to the top of the list!
5 Jeanette Jobson // Feb 19, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Fabulous drawing Steve and you’re so fast! I feel like a sloth in comparison.
I have some pastelboard but haven’t used it for coloured pencil yet, despite rave reviews from those who have. Have you used Colourfix paper as well with CP?
6 S.G. Chipman // Feb 19, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Thanks Jeanette, though it did help a lot that I was off work yesterday and that the subject spent Sunday afternoon and most of Monday with her grandparents.
I have not tried Colourfix, but judging from the description on dickblick, it sounds similar, if not as heavy duty. I’ll have to give it a try!
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