Geraniums
Another step-by-step Prismacolor Drawing.
The brilliance of Geraniums gives my porch an uplifting look, and the flowers manage to survive much of my neglect, and they last well into the autumn, only giving up at the first frost.
I decided to try them on black pastel paper, still learning how to layer the colors to get the effect that I want. It starts with sketching in the general composition. I also like to swatch my pencil colors to see how they work on the paper.
Once the general composition is made, it’s time to lay in some basic colors. If I want to have bright colors on dark paper, it helps to make a light layer of white or other light color to blend with the reds and oranges. I’m not so concerned about the green background, so it only requires a light layer, but I used a brighter green for the leaves of the geraniums.
As the drawing develops, I layer in more colors. In this case, I think I needed to work on it on another day. While the photo is a bit blurred (phone shot), I can see how roughly the pencil strokes have not blended as much as I wanted. This is an example of how I am still learning more about how to use prismacolor pencils. It is also based on a limit of about an hour and a half’s work. I may pull it out and work on it a bit more. If So, I’ll update this post.
I decided that it needed more shading and highlighting, so while my computer ran its scans and such, I took the drawing out and worked on it for another half hour or so. Much better I think.
