@rleeelliott,
Geez, It’s looking better than great!!
Sonia
Thank you, Cathy @cmhales7. I’ve always wanted to learn watercolor. I’m having fun as I continue to learn new things about it almost every day!
Brenda
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Holy Molly! This is incredible! You’re work is so inspiring.
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Welcome to the TVI forum! Your landscape is beautiful. Thank you for sharing, and can’t wait to see your future work!
Sonia
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Thanks for sharing your work. This is nicely done.
Terri Robichon
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Terri, that drawing is amazing! I love it. When I see work like that it inspires me to improve my art! Thanks for sharing it. Also, you said Pastelmat paper, but what type of color pencils? What is the size?
Blessings,
Bill Potts
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I like it. It’s intriguing to look at!
Bill
Hi! This is a colored pencil drawing on 9x12, Art Spectrum Colorfix paper, smooth, sand color. I used prismacolor and polychromos pencils. The subject was a tree I photographed at McCormick’s Creek State Park in Spencer, IN.
Bill Potts
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Hi Bill -
This is absolutley wonderful. What I like the most (besides it being really well done) is the diagional of the composition. Pure Genius.
Terri Robichon
PS - I think you should send this in to Matt for the Members Minute.
Hi Bill @pottsie
Thanks so much for the kind words of support.
The colored pencils were Faber-Castell Polychromos and Prismacolor Premier. It’s just a little drawing 5 x 7 because I knew I didn’t have time to draw it bigger and it was large enough to capture the needed details. Thanks for asking for your participation here. The more people that we get to know, the more fun and rewarding it is.
Terri Robichon
I love working with charcoal & this is a wonderful piece.
Jim
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Beautiful job Bill, I really like working with colored pencils too but all the layering wears my my arthritic hands out anymore.
I did this a couple months ago. It’s 9x12 on gray pastel mat paper. I used mixed pastel pencils and Rembrandt pastel sticks. The subject is my granddaughters and couple years ago leaving the beach in South Haven, MI
Bill Potts
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Ha Ron! I get it. I thankfully don’t have arthritis, but the layering wears my brain out at times 
! Thanks!
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You are very talented Bill. It is fun to see your drawings and I hope you keep posting.
Terri Robichon
Beautiful drawing. I hope you follow Terri’s advice and send it to the members minute for Matt to review!
Sonia
Wow, I would have never thought it was only 5x7. You did an excellent job of capturing the details. I always struggle with hands, so I just keep looking at your drawing in amazement. I even shared it with my wife and she thought it was a photo.
I’m still learning how to navigate this website. It seems like I can only post a picture or comment two or three times a day. That’s tough because if I have some free time to start surfing the site, my comments get cut off and then when I try to find the posting again, I often can’t find it. I suppose I’ll catch on after a while!
Thanks for all the positive and encouraging comments you share with all of us who share on this forum!
Bill Potts
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Hi Bill -
Sorry you’re having problems posting. I guess I might post one new thing, and then just respond a lot to others. I haven’t had problems myself with posting.
Since you are newer, you may not be aware that I start all my projects by tracing my initial drawing. Because I’m trying to do one piece of artwork a week (which I haven’t been accomplishing for a couple weeks - crap) I don’t want to spend the time on the initial line drawing. Also when realism is your goal, little errors in where a guideline is located can make a huge difference in your degree of success. Finally, when you trace, you are looking really closely at the drawing. Paying close attention and really SEEING the details is necessary for photo realistic drawing. Making sure your artwork is what is really there, and not what you think should be there.
I want to be clear, however, that you have permission to make planned changes from a reference if by doing so you are creating a better composition or obtaining a better range of values.
By watching a lot of the Member’s Minutes I’m finally giving myself permission to deviate from time to time from the reference. That’s been hard for me to learn.
The other thing about drawing with a goal of photo realism, is that it takes a lot of time - and therefore patience. While I strive for a piece of art every week, that is just a goal, and my priority is to give every piece the amount of time it needs to do it right. For instance, that 5x7 colored pencil potters wheel took somewhere between 35-40 hours, spread over 6 days.
Bill you have really strong skills already. I know by just having more practice, watching the members minutes (where all of us learn a lot) and taking your time, you will create drawings that are equal to mine.
Terri Robichon