i grew bored of my own challenge.
so today, when i went out, i took a sketchbook & some pencils and neocolors with me and drew without any pre-conception. not even the landscape-thing was on my mind.
i actually visited a place where i go often. it's a small meadow right next to a little bit of woodland. the meadow is quite wild, i think there was one cut late in the spring & since then it was left alone. it is rather dry, but that doesn't stop most farmers in this area from mowing their grasslands. i don't know whose it is but i'm grateful to them; it's beautiful.
the only thing that was on my mind was the wind i heard, the racing clouds & changing light, and the colours in my box. just a few. i particularly love the chromium oxide green & desert rose (it used to be called "flesh" but they've reconsidered the name, it seems; it's no. 42). moss green. payne's grey. and holbein's mustard pencil.
i put some shapes together. i enjoyed myself.
(i wish someone could just tell me how to do this, this thing called making.
no -- i wish i had a better mindset.)
payne's gray i did not use. it was too blue. i could've used a darker version of the oxide green neocolor; i think i will add derwent lightfast's olive green to this selection of colours, tomorrow. and maybe seaweed. & a darker blueish green. neocolor's malachite, or dark green.
(i like neocolors but their colour range isn't perfect: i find it way too bright and happy. if only derwent made something similar to neocolor with their lightfast pencil-colours: they're so wonderful & earthy -- i wish i could combine the two, they would complement each other perfectly. if only.)
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