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i did something else entirely, today, & i'm quite excited by it. it's nothing special. actually, it's something quite common & when you take any class, any decent class that is, for beginners, they will mention this: value. i decided to jump into it. i was never any good at it & never really wanted to. 

i don't know what changed but all of a sudden it's very interesting to me. so i picked out a painting by some pretty wonderful artist, charles warren eaton's september moonrise 1900, & just started.

first i tried some watersoluble graphite pencils; then luminance pencils; then regular graphite pencils -- i ended up with an inktense pencil for my dark, a watersoluble graphite pencil as my medium, and.... i can't remember, something else as my light. i've seen people use a white charcoal pencil to bring the light back, i might try that if i ever buy a white charcoal (or pastel) pencil.

i'm also thinking about buying a kraftpaper-sketchbook; that way you already have your medium colour which might be interesting.

i almost immediately panicked once i started the drawing of the landscape (his landscape) with my oil pastels. apparently something in me thought i had to re-produce the work. & i definitely did not, i even forgot to include the moon. 

thankfully i understood what was happening & could move past the panic. at the moment i quite like the drawing. i'm definitely doing this again. this feels important.

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so, my new sennelier colours:

yes i put tape over the one colour i didn't like. it's the mummy colour. i will probably never use that one.