Paula’s Blog

Hello world. This is my first venture into “blogging” and I am looking forward to the adventure. The focus of this blog will be my experiences in the world of fine art. I am an artist in Columbia, South Carolina and my mediums of interest are watercolor, acrylic and colored pencil. Right now I am concentrating my efforts on colored pencil. I had my introduction to colored pencils with Ann Kullberg, Nicole Caulfield and Gretchen Evans Parker on a seven day cruise in April 2008. Since then I have been obsessed with all things pencil. So I will be talking about colored pencil a lot!

My first completed colored pencil project was this cup of grapes (done on the cruise).  It was done on pastel board and took about 10 hours to complete.   I was very pleased with the outcome and have been buying supplies and trying out techniques ever since.   Gretchen Evans Parker held a workshop last week in Lexington, SC.  In six lessons, we “painted” marbles and a yorkie puppy.  As soon as I finish the puppy, I’ll put him up for all to see.  I found “hair of the dog” to be extremely difficult.

More later.  Bye for now.

This entry was posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 01:32 and is filed under In General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.