Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

Wet’n’Dry

MATERIALS

• 1 x sheet white Clairefontaine Pastelmat® (to fit 12 x 16” portrait)

• Faber Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolour Pencils:

– Black

– White

– Caput Mortuum

– Dark Sepia

– Payne’s Grey

– Burnt Ochre

– Dark Indigo

– Cool Grey I

– Cool Grey II

– Prussian Blue

– Warm Grey II

– Warm Grey III

– Terracotta

• Craft knife

• Pencil sharpener

• Water brush (or normal watercolour brush)

• Glassine paper (use this to lean on to prevent smudging when working)

STEP ONE

I took around 200 photos of this dog in a brief photoshoot with a commission client. Sometimes I take several hundred of my subject in the hope that half a dozen will stand out. In

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