This Sketch Sunday comes to you in colour!

In the spirit of loosening up, experimentation and not getting into a sketching rut, I decided to do this week’s sketch in colour after I opened my box labelled “carcoal & crayon” and saw all these cheery sticks of brightness.

Crayon, however, is a very unforgiving medium. Unlike pastel, it doesn’t blend on the page. And if you try to rub a new colour over an old one, it forms a coating that flakes off.

(I often wonder at the sorts of art materials we give children to use. They seem designed to make painting and drawing as difficult and discouraging as possible. Cheap paintbrushes and paint colours that mixed to form shades of uninspiring ‘mud’ had me sticking to drawing and avoiding painting for years.)

I considere this sketch a dud, and nearly did another sketch to post here, but I don’t think Sketch Sunday is only about the successful sketches, just as it isn’t only about the ‘finished’ ones, or doesn’t include brainstorming sketches.

And I won’t let this put me off playing with colour again. Especially since I just finished making a sketchbook full of coloured pages, and I’m looking forward to filling it with drawings.