Probably the first of several so I’ll collect them here. Hopefully, I’ll remember to come back! I’m still besotted with gesso so this is a pre-prepped A5 sheet in a sketchbook on which I’d blended dark grey charcoal before applying the gesso. The next day (today), I used each of a series of graded charcoals to make the boxes, finger-blending line 1, cross-hatching line 2, and describing small circles in line 3. Line 4 is the black and the white crayons applied with different pressures to give graded tones. I’ve done this with pencil on a previous course but need … Continue reading Grey scale exercise(s)