Colored Pencil Portrait Complete

Colored Pencil Portrait Finished

     I am working on finishing a lot of my unfinished projects and this is one of them.  She is my niece and this was taken at the St. Louis zoo.  She was so photogenic!  She just loved to pose for the camera!  I will compete with this piece and then I will send it to my brother where it will have a permanent home.

This piece is mostly done with neutral colors.  French grays, cool and warm grays and a few other colors as well.  I used a couple brands of colored pencil.  I have the full line of both Prismacolor and Derwent Coloursoft.  I am looking at adding the Luminess full color set next month.

I want to a little bit about cameras.

     With cameras the way they are nowadays, it is so easy to take a change, take a lot of photos, and take your time going through them.  You should also try to get the settings right and check the focus.  Do a test shot to check your settings, unless you have a scene that is rapidly changing.  Doing a test shot and checking it can save you from disappointment when you get home.

In the world of cameras, it is important to understand that having a high megapixel doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a great picture.  The quality of the glass used in the lenses, and much more goes into a great camera.  I found that out the hard way.  I received a new camera as a gift.....higher megapixels, so I gave my old camera away to someone in my family!  Well it does not take as great of pictures, and she won’t give me my old one back.....even though I am doing free

paintings for them.  I am just trying to save a little and hopefully get the same camera again.

Lots of learned lessons there.

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Egret Swamp Family ~ a few from my past

Egret Swamp Family

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This is a colored pencil drawing on board

that was immensely fun and difficult for its

size to complete with accuracy.

The photo was from a small sad zoo who’s 

prices were much too high, however the zoo

backed up to a marsh, and you could hear the

din of a thousand or more birds squawking 

before you even got near.

At this time this may be the only bit of memory 

that exists after a bad computer crash.

It is really sad for me because I actually took

hundreds of really great bird photos that 

day.   I even got permission and braved 

going down to where the two alligators were.

Yes, I did see one but only after I got to close and he saw me!

Thrashed his body in that horseshoe shaped that 

shoes me his (my grandma what BIG TEETH 

you have) and what a bad-ass tail too!!!

He blended in with the ground so well it was just bone

shaking crazy! And I am not afraid of even big bad animals

but he did take at least 5 or 6 years off my life!

But he was more afraid of me and splashed

quite noisily into the water scaring the birds I had

Been so intent on creeping up on.  Thank you 

Mr. Croc for all of the crap lost.

What? Only to be had by a bad computer crash 

and an even worse back-up system.  They

were still fairly new back then and 

I did not have need to use my system.

Lesson today for my readers......

Check that your back up is in good

working order? Yes?

No bird soars too high if he 

Soars with his own wings.......

~William Blake~

Live life with no regrets my friends,

And live as if there is no tomorrow! ~DB~