After some consideration, I decided I would like to again try selling art for charity but only in coloured pencil or mixed media, not markers.
There's a story behind this: My friend who commissioned the Liverpool gate
piece asked if the colours would fade. Good question. I didn't know.
After some research, I found out that marker ink can fade over time.
Yikes!
While it's probably ok if the pieces are not placed near a window or under direct sunlight, I felt a little uncom
fortable
with the uncertainty and thought I shouldn't be selling them. So I
decided that pieces for sale would be done either with coloured pencils or at least a mixture of coloured pencils and markers. The coloured pencils I
use are professional grade and have been tested for lightfastness - they
should maintain their colours as long as they're not under direct
sunlight (nothing can survive that!)
These were the first four I posted in my so-called Phase 2:
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| Country church |
Doing sky and greenery is still tricky for me. I think I'm getting better but I still have some way to go.
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| Fez, Morocco |
The only issue with coloured pencils is that they tend to give a
fuzzier, dreamy effect (like in this Fez drawing) which is nice in its own
way, but not that bright, crisp look that I love with line drawings and
markers. However, the Inktense set of coloured
pencils I bought is supposed to give an ink effect when wet and I'm so
pleased to say that it really works! (pic of the jamon
shop). I don't think it's as crisp as just using markers, but it's more than passable. I still used some markers as underlayers but it's topped with
coloured pencil so if there really is some fading, the coloured pencil
layer should take care of that.
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| Jamoneria |
And finally, I did this still life piece. It's quite fun but getting the items to look realistic take a lot of coloured pencil work and it's really tough on the hand. But I do love me coloured pencils ♥
See the full list of artworks for sale.
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