Wonder or Wander

 New paper made by Shizen. It is 5x7 in size with a very rough surface made of 100% recycled consumer waste. Well, it is better than Canson watercolor sketchbook. It holds a lot of water and indeed blends colors. 

 Tom Shepherd is inspirational. His bold brush strokes and limited, but saturated colors. I am happy with the strokes I tried in this painting. It looks like a watercolor painting and it is. 

 Pencil drawing, added light colors with color sticks. 

  The first watercolor painting of a bird that I painted on my own. 

  I purchased a good-looking drawing set that includes lots of pencils, compressed sticks, and others. I just wanted to try out them all. The sticks are quite hard. Without blending, they leave unorderly marks. I wish to leave marks, but beautiful ones.  

That's what it takes.  Eye ball: Yellow as the glowing basis. Add burnt sienna and dark brown on top of it. Increase intensity as it goes and blend them.  Around the eye: watery color as the basis and watery brush strokes for fur. Then add darkest colors. Finally add brunt sienna around the eye.  Tutorial by Rebecca Rhodes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CekQ8brBQkM  

At his Himalaya tracking. Charcoal pencils, brush, and eraser.