Greenway Path

I'm much happier now. Today I got to finish up a big design project and actually see it off to the printer. Yay! Now I'll have a little more art time. And, I did this little experiment with my Derwent Coloursoft colored pencils.

You may remember from my last post the issues I was having getting the Coloursoft pencils to lay down well on pastel board after I had my underpainting of Neocolor crayons. The Neocolors are rather waxy and the Coloursoft pencils just didn't get along with them very well. So, for this experiment I used watercolor pencils for my underpainting and the Coloursoft pencils went down beautifully over them. I was so happy with the result of this process that I now have quite a list for my next art supply purchases, once that free-lance design check arrives!

The first image below is the work in progress, still showing some of the areas washed with watercolor pencil, before the final colored pencil layer was applied. It actually looks a little too washed out in this photo, the color washes were more saturated than they appear here.

And here is the final piece, after completing the Coloursoft colored pencil layers. My only complaint was that I was working with a smaller set of Coloursofts that didn't include many of my usual color choices. But it was fun to do anyway and I really liked using these colored pencils.Greenway Path
7 x 5 inches
colored pencil on pastel board
copyright 2008 by Ann Thompson Nemcosky