the hand must be done

Onto other things...

more work on the hand

If this Bruynzeel Sienna pencil holds out, I can finish this. I need to further even out the contrast between the highlights and shadows. (Too bad the paper I grabbed to draw this on has a notch cut out of it.)

The idea here is to emulate Watteau's "Trois Crayon" technique, although I am not really using the exact colors he did. He used Red, Black and White chalk. I am using Sienna, Black and White colored pencils.

Here is an example of his beautiful work.

I think for a drawing soon I will use the proper 3 colors on some nice cream-colored paper I bought a while back.

A hand I've been working on...

I have most of the deepest shadows done on the hand and some of the highlights. Time to fill in all the rest of the mid-tones. The background black may get some water brushed on it to deepen the black and make the hand pop out more.

Bruynzeel and Caran d'Ache colored pencils on colored paper

from Lincoln Park Zoo yesterday

A Chimpanzee.

He or she was eating some lettuce.