Polychromos and Pablo pencils on Bristol Vellum paper
Tag: coloured pencils
Tsunami
I have been drawing for around 4 or 5 weeks now, and enjoy it so much. My soul gets completely absorbed. I can concentrate for hours, when normally I can only concentrate for an hour at the most, when I’m watching TV or a film.
Here’s a poem:
When I put my pastels
to my paper
I get lost
in a vortex of fervour
Colours cascade from my
feisty fingers
Chroma hints
Pigmentation lingers
Cut like a diamond
dripping indulgence
on a distinguished rapper
I am rapt
Dazzling, decadent, daring
My mind dissolves
into a technicolour maelstrom
Splash of red, hint of blue
Unbridled passion sways from
these unostentatious hands
Difficult to believe
the ebb and flow from
my whirlwind mind
of shifting sands
I am a palette of tsunami
A riot of imagination
My gleeful tools
worship my paper
Making love
to the beguiling texture
of this creative emotion
A passionate mixture
Cherishing inception
with religious devotion
Trading my soul
for an effigy
Igniting the cognition
of self-expressive perception
Every stroke of colour
that blesses the canvas
is a spiritual atonement
And the completion
is an act of contrition
And I lose myself
©2020 Sarah Drury
Portrait in Purple
Portrait of my son, drawn with Caran D’Ache Pablo pencils on Bristol Vellum paper. I found it was harder to get the detail on the vellum compared to the Bristol Smooth.
Blue Eye in coloured pencil
Tried to be realistic with this one. It was my first attempt so was quite pleased.
Polychromos coloured pencils on Bristol Smooth paper.