Icarus Art Drawing Board: Fresh new look at wax based mediums!

• Size: 16" x 16"
• Support: Art Spectrum Colourfix Sanded Pastel Paper
• Media: Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Water Soluble Wax Pastels/Crayons, Prismacolor Colored Pencils (Verithin, Premiere & Lightfast)
• Tools: Gray Paper Stumps and Colour Shapers

Line Drawing

The original graphite drawing is transferred onto Colourfix paper with Verithin colored pencil.

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First Petal

• Color mapping is accomplished on the cool zone with sharpened Neocolors.
• Colors are blended on the warm zone with a Colour Shaper.
• Details and nuances are added with colored pencils (Premiere & Lightfast) using the cool zone for layering and the warm zone for blending with a paper stump.

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Second Petal

• Color mapping is accomplished on the cool zone with Neocolors.
• Blending is done on the warm zone with a Colour Shaper.
• Details and nuances are added with colored pencils using the cool zone for layering and the warm zone for blending with a paper stump.

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Third Petal

• Color mapping is accomplished on the cool zone with Neocolors.
• Blending is done on the warm zone with a Colour Shaper.
• Details and nuances are added with colored pencils using the cool zone for layering and the warm zone for blending with a paper stump.

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Other Petals and Center

Each individual petal and the center are completed following the same three steps of the examples above.

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Background

Color mapping is accomplished on the cool zone with Neocolors.
Blending is done on the warm zone with a Colour Shaper.

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Finishing Touches

Details and nuances of the background are layered with colored pencils on the cool zone and blended on the warm zone. The edges of the flower are softened with a paper stump on the warm zone.

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• Size: 16" x 16"
  
• Support: Stonehenge Paper
  
• Media: Prismacolor Colored Pencils, Caran D'Ache Luminance Colored Pencils, Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Water-soluble Wax Crayons
  
• Tools: Prismacolor Colorless Blender, Gray Paper Stumps and various Art Sponges
  

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Line Drawing

The line drawing is accomplished with Verithin colored pencils.

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Leaves

The leaves are developed in three different steps:

• Color Mapping (right side) - done with Neocolors on the cool zone.
• Blending (center) - accomplished on the warm zone with a small art sponge.
• Details (left side) - added with colored pencils on the cool zone.
  
  

Petals

• Wax Foundation - done with a yellow crayon on the warm zone.
• Thinning - on the warm zone with a gray paper stump, leaving a thin layer of yellow pigment which will accept more layering.
• Layering - green, orange and red colored pencils are layered on the cool zone to create the flower folds.
• Blending - the layers are blended on the warm zone with a colorless blender (or a gray paper stump).
  
  

Center

Color mapping is accomplished with colored pencils on the cool zone.
Blending is done on the warm zone with a colorless blender.

  
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Background

Color mapping is accomplished on the cool zone with Neocolors.
Blending is done on the warm zone with an art sponge.

  
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Air Bubbles

Layering is accomplished with colored pencils on the cool zone.
Blending is done on the warm zone.

  
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Finishing Details

• The water texture is created on the cool zone with white Neocolor and then selectively blended with a finger on the warm zone.
• Highlights are re-emphasized on the cool zone with white Neocolor.
• Edges are cleaned up and softened on the warm zone with a paper stump.

  
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And then...the completed artwork

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• Size: 5" x 7"
• Support: Stonehenge Paper
• Media: Prismacolor Colored Pencils (Verithin, Premiere and Lightfast)
  
• Tools: Gray Paper Stumps and Prismacolor Colorless Blender
  

Line Drawing

The line drawing is accomplished with Verithin colored pencils.

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Petal: Wax Foundation

White colored pencil (or white Art Stx) is burnished on the warm zone all over the petal to buil a wax foundation.
This will help with subsequent layering and blending.

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Petal: Layering

Local colors are layered on the cool zone over the white by using the side of the pencil.

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Petal: Blending

Blending is accomplished on the warm zone with a paper stump using a circular motion.

    
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Petal: Layering

More colors are layered on the warm zone with the side of the pencil.

  
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Petal: Blending

The colors are blended with a paper stump and a colorless blender on the warm zone.

  
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Shadow: Layering

Local colors are layered on the cool zone over the white underpainting by using the side of the pencil.

  
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Shadow: Blending

The colors are blended with a paper stump on the warm zone.

  
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Background: Wax Foundation

Light blue is burnished on the warm zone.

  
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Background: Layering & Blending

White and lilac are layered on the cool zone and then blended on the warm zone with a paper stump.

  
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• Size: 4" x 6"
• Support: Stonehenge Paper
• Media: Prismacolor Colored Pencils (Verithin, Premiere and Lightfast)
• Tools: Gray Paper Stumps and Prismacolor Colorless Blender

Line Drawing

The line drawing is accomplished with Verithin colored pencils.

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Color Mapping

Local colors are burnished on the warm zone whenever possible to build a wax foundation.
This will help with subsequent layering and blending.

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Blue Pebble: Layering & Blending

Dark blue and black are layered on the warm zone and blended with a paper stump using a circular motion. Lilac and white are layered and blended to create the lighter values.

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Blue Pebble: Speckling

Four different colored pencils are lightly grated on a coarse sand paper.
The speckles are then distributed over the blue pebble and burnished into the substrate.
This is accomplished on the warm zone by rolling a brayer over tracing paper.

    
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Other Pebbles:  Layering, Blending & Speckling

Each individual pebble is completed by following the same three steps used for the blue pebble.

  
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And then...the completed artwork

  
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