Marian Jackson MDA

I have wanted to try Sanded or textured papers for a while so here’s my painting, it will be an Epacket later on. For now, I want to share my experience with you.

Because I work on the smoothest paper I can possibly find (Stonehenge) this was a huge change for me. Before I started, I took a kitchen sponge with a scrubby side (brand new, clean and used dry) and sanded the surface. (Sctoch Brite, non-scratch scrub sponge. It’s blue.)

I used my regular Prismacolors and found it layered nicely on the paper and blended well. The biggest problem I had was good clean edges – solved by using a Verithin in the same color. Because it’s sandpaper-ish, particles were kind of everywhere as I painted.  Brushing off just smeared so after the first swipe I was very careful. I might be tempted to use a Swiffer in future. I think it might be gentler than my brush. At the end, the background was quite smeared but using the Factis Black eraser, it all came off. The surface is hardy, I did like that and I really like the color range. This is Sky Blue.

I could have used more layers to cover the texture but I rather like it. It seems more natural than perfectly smooth to me. I haven’t tried OMS or blender pencils on it yet – I wanted it to be a pure painting to begin with, then maybe later on I will experiment.

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8 pages includes: 8 step-by photos, 1 full color step-by-step, 1 full page color photo, line drawing.

Uses Canson Mi Tientes, #131 Twilight, 8 x 10 and Prismacolor Wax pencils.

Very suitable for Beginners.

Yellow Rose is my second project for 2015 on the Colored Pencils Club. I’m thinking also of the possibility of several background color choices. I didn’t want to get this too complicated as we have so many beginners subscribing, but I believe you will learn something regardless and it’s interesting enough for advanced painters. Always fun to put your own spin on an painting like this.

The subscription is $110 for 12 projects by numerous National and International artist, many with videos to go along with the written instructions. My classes will have videos. This online course is like a mini convention that you attend in your own time frame. Classes are available until December 31, 2015.

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The Colander & Plums goes live January 1, 2015

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Many new colored pencil painters don’t know what wax bloom is or how to recognize or remove it.  This is a 48 second video that shows you what it is.  I don’t use anything other than a soft make up pad, or cotton ball to lightly wipe the wax away. Seeing is believing.

Candy Canes – a Colored Pencils Tutorial available now on my website. Just in time to make hand made Holiday cards. Instant delivery upon your return from PayPal.

Candy Canes – a Colored Pencil Tutorial suitable for beginners or intermediate painters.  $10

Contains: 3 pages of instructions, 1 page size color photo, 1 page size step-by-step photo for a total of 5 pages.

This design was originally presented in The Decorative Painter.

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This is a larger painting but the technique is the same.  It was fun to paint with brighter colors and use the value of the paper to control the intensity. Available from my website.

11 pages; 15 color images, 1 line drawing.  The format of this tutorial is a little different as I have not done step-by-step images for each blossom. There are too many. Each blossom has a color photo with instructions written next to it so that you can work from  it.

Blue Orchids

Paper: Black Stonehenge, un-textured side. I cut mine 16×20 to match the mat size, but a smaller size would also work.

Prismacolor Wax Pencils used in this painting.