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Wednesday's "feels like" due to humidity adds ten Fahrenheit degrees (18 C) to the 93°F (~33.8°F) predicted temperature. We had a splash of rain last night, but i kept draining the tank to the garden over night, it's been so dry. I'm not sure there was enough pressure to get to all of the rows.
14:34 YAWN. I do not know why i feel so tired. It does seem i had three apnea events an hour last night instead of 2, my average. So, that?
Insert long break to work on a zentangle. I now feel a little more alert. But also like the day is completely lost.
I'm using the apparently cheap colored pencils (the cores keep breaking) marked "elite BOB beste qualität." I can't find anything online about these pencils, even using German Stifte or Bleistifte. I wonder how i acquired them.
Tuesday, as part of my extended vacation, i went through and identified warm and cool primaries and a CMY-ish set of primaries and experimented making color wheels, with rings representing tints and shades as well as intensities. When my prismacolor pencils get here i will make similar color wheels.
One of the things i enjoyed with acrylics was getting to know my pigments and having a small palette from which i could mix what i need. I suspect getting tints - a hue mixed with white - is harder with colored pencils than it is with paints. I never made a color wheel, but Golden paints provides hand painted charts to show how their pigments behave under load and as a glaze, demonstrating how transparent they are. Mixing charts are also available so that one gets a sense of how powerful pigments are: for "Yellow and blue make green," one might need ten times the amount of yellow than blue because yellow is a wimpy pigment compared to the blue. I'm curious how the pencils will work.
Essentially, i'll make the same for myself for the pencils, experimenting with how they blend. I found a worksheet -- https://www.ridgefieldschools.com/cms/lib8/NJ01912890/Centricity/Domain/761/Colored_Pencil_Drawing_Techniques_Vocab_and_Worksheet.pdf -- that appears to pull many skills together. I think i could spend a year building up a guide to each pencil. And given i've bought two different hardnesses of many colors, there will be different effects with those, too.
14:34 YAWN. I do not know why i feel so tired. It does seem i had three apnea events an hour last night instead of 2, my average. So, that?
Insert long break to work on a zentangle. I now feel a little more alert. But also like the day is completely lost.
I'm using the apparently cheap colored pencils (the cores keep breaking) marked "elite BOB beste qualität." I can't find anything online about these pencils, even using German Stifte or Bleistifte. I wonder how i acquired them.
Tuesday, as part of my extended vacation, i went through and identified warm and cool primaries and a CMY-ish set of primaries and experimented making color wheels, with rings representing tints and shades as well as intensities. When my prismacolor pencils get here i will make similar color wheels.
One of the things i enjoyed with acrylics was getting to know my pigments and having a small palette from which i could mix what i need. I suspect getting tints - a hue mixed with white - is harder with colored pencils than it is with paints. I never made a color wheel, but Golden paints provides hand painted charts to show how their pigments behave under load and as a glaze, demonstrating how transparent they are. Mixing charts are also available so that one gets a sense of how powerful pigments are: for "Yellow and blue make green," one might need ten times the amount of yellow than blue because yellow is a wimpy pigment compared to the blue. I'm curious how the pencils will work.
Essentially, i'll make the same for myself for the pencils, experimenting with how they blend. I found a worksheet -- https://www.ridgefieldschools.com/cms/lib8/NJ01912890/Centricity/Domain/761/Colored_Pencil_Drawing_Techniques_Vocab_and_Worksheet.pdf -- that appears to pull many skills together. I think i could spend a year building up a guide to each pencil. And given i've bought two different hardnesses of many colors, there will be different effects with those, too.
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