Pencil Drawings into Colour

Sharing my private sketchbook

Over the past months I’ve been drawing with dry media much more than before.

I’m trying to add steps to my work so I can insert a bit more reflection into it.

I also realized that the more I work with one drawing, like sketching it quickly, using the viewfinder, cropping, zooming and then reworking it into a new page is giving me a lot more to work from.

I made one painting that I will show later, that started with a scribble.

The painting is almost finished. It’s the first I paint on wood and I’m fascinated by the process and the result. But as wood is more expensive and bulkier I need to pace myself.

I want to show you some pages of my private sketchbook in pencil, some in charcoal but it smudges. Mostly I stick with graphite: