Drawing #10

Okay, had so many things to do when I got back from my holiday, but I had to finish this drawing first thing. This is a cute guy I play bingo with on Fridays at the Nursing Home. He's so sweet. Done with charcoal, blackboard chalk, pencil crayons.
Still crazy for me to work with color. I spend about an hour putting color on and a good week trying to take it off and tone it down! Its got a strange pastel-ish glow but still too much color for me.

Drawing #9

I've been trying to do portraits in color, but I just can't get the pencil crayons to tone down to my level.  I'm not usually much for color, and they are just so intense.  Anyhow.. I went to the dollar store and bought a box of colored blackboard chalk for a dollar and gave it a try.  I actually quite like the result.  Working with it is a bit difficult, but I like the skin tones way better than the pencil crayons. 


So here's a cute fellow I play bingo with at the nursing home.