The second day of my painting vacation started with a workshop. We all got a piece of Chunky Charcoal and were challenged to test it first, followed by making drawings after some reference pictures provided by our teacher and coach Ad van Aart.
That was fun - until we had to clean our fingers but a bit of perseverance with water, soap and a brush had the desired result.
I started with this one:
testing the marks I could make and how to continue after the marks were made.
The work on top is my second one, I selected a landscape with salt marshes and a grey sky. The sky darkened as I was working because it is really hard to soften the marks that are made using this type of charcoal. Only using more charcoal - darkening the paper - can hide the initial marks.
Having said that, I am really happy with the dark result I got here. To help the composition I also darkened the landscape and I managed to suggest some rain falling from the clouds.
My third work was another challenge, also using a reference picture from the large supply our teacher brought with him:
This is a waterfall and the reference picture was really soft, taken with a long exposure time. Doing something like that with a really chunky stick of charcoal is not possible - at least not at a first try. The result does show a waterfall and I have learned more while working on this one than I learned working on the other two landscapes.
The information about the materials I have used, the sizes of these drawings and their availabilities and - if you are interested in my original artworks - my contact information can be found in my Tumblr blog.
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