Wash day. We got up early ( around 7.30 am) so that Kev got chance to get it all done without interference, which he did by lunchtime.
I was waiting on the arrival of my Faber Castell polychromos pencils. I had a smaller set of them and loved them, they are tiny stubs now, but they blend like a dream with solvent and stumps. You can layer colours, and make something look much more 3D ( if you get good at it) I'm still learning, but I know enough to know you can't get the look with cheap pencils. To me since I've learned via a stamp platform to love stamped images, how you colour them is what suits you. Even as a kid I loved pencils above any other medium. I've tried others, paint is fine for backgrounds, but I'm not confident colouring images with paint ( too splodgy for my OCD neatness) alcohol markers, are like felt tips too blocky and I find blending them harsh... Pencils need more work, its true, but when they are layered and blended properly they look amazing and I can achieve the look I want. So this set wasn't cheap, but I had a couple of gift vouchers on my Amazon account so I went for the bigger set with more colour gradients to play with. So you can guess that I've been playing with them since they came.
That as well as reading more of False Value on my kindle. This is when lockdown fades into the background when even out of lockdown I would choose to stay home and enjoy... Mind you, I have noticed that I am getting quite agoraphobic and anxious when thinking about going out or going away, anywhere, I hope it passes as I want to enjoy a holiday if I get the chance not getting worked up and anxious away from home.
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