Welcome Spring!

These 2 pencil sketches are dedicated to all the beauty that comes with Spring. This is the season which reminds us of new life every year. Birds return from their long flights, trees bud and soon it will all be luscious green again!

I have always enjoyed pencil shading. The owl is a great subject for graphite pencils. He looks pretty fierce, doesn't he? :)

I am still learning the techniques of using color pencils. These sketches are imitations of other artists work. Color pencils are so versatile. You can achieve great texture or you can get a smooth blended look. This colorful bird is a good one to start with.

                                                                                                                                                               

Here are few more pictures showing the texture and the blended looks that you can achieve with color pencils.

Hope you all enjoy the warm spring sun this weekend! 

A glass of wine anyone?

This time I decided to go pencil. :)

Pencil sketching is how it all started for me. As a kid, I loved my pencils and learnt how to shade. I started by doing simple pencil drawings and then slowly learnt to analyse the light and shadow areas and make the sketch more life like.

Still Life Art is very intriguing. Bringing objects to life on paper is quite entertaining.

My next challenge is to be able to do portraits well. Portraits are far less forgiving. You have to get the proportions exactly right or you end up with a strange looking face!

I say... Challenge Accepted!