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Giving it a go with artist colored pencils for the first time. Finding it challenging to keep a point on the pencils and anyway to recover if what should have been a white area gets too much color? Do most colored pencil artists use solvents to blend?

Drawing Prompt Submission

A pastel drawing I made as an exercise for class.

Étude chromatique colorée à l'aquarelle dans le cadre du cours de dessin à la deuxième session. The final result of a color study exercise made in class. This piece got sold not long ago.

a live painting I made at the fire, durring summer when I was looking after some scout teenagers.

A tribute to my mother for her consistent efforts to assist me throughout grad school.

This drawing is of a slightly older individual and the rendering is deliberately incomplete. The unfinished nature of the image alludes to the idea that although aged, the individual has not reached the end of their lives. Therefore the subject has more living, growing, and maturing to do.

Above is a fun painting of my husband and I.

The first painting in a series of watercolor portraits of women who have changed or influenced history.

An illustrated map of Nicaragua featuring Volcán Concepción of Ometepe and some of the country's most iconic wildlife: spider monkey, jaguar, and motmot bird.

An illustrated map of Costa Rica featuring the Arenal Volcano with some of the country's most iconic wildlife species: toucan, tree frog, and hummingbird.

This is an inchie (1 square inch card for trade in my ATC trading group)

Apteryx mantelli (Northern Brown Kiwi) done with graphite. More like this on: https://www.instagram.com/camilojulianc/