Colored Pencils

On Easter Sunday I looked around at church and and was amazed by all of the beautiful pastel colors people were wearing.  I immediately thought about how I would like to draw those scenes in colored pencils.  That is when I realized how much I loved colored pencils.  When I was a high school student at an intensive half-a-day art school, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, I was assigned projects using colored pencils.  At the time, I tried to use them well, but I was frustrated; I wanted to use paint or pastels. 

A lot of my art now involves colored pencils.  I use them in drawings, assemblages, hand-pulled prints, and in the future, I will embellish my digital prints with colored pencils too.

Drawing

"Woman and Baby Sitting," Color pencil, 7/2011, 7 1/2"x11"

Assemblage

"Untitled 7-06-08", fired white clay, colored pencils, linoleum print and collage, 2008, human face size, Photo Credit: Marlon Winn

Hand-pulled print

"Woman--Produce 2", Polyester plate lithography and color pencils, 4/2010, 8"x10"

Drawing

"Women Walking," Color Pencils, 6/2011, 11"x11 1/2"