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My favorite skin tone: Mid Vermilion (an Inktense pencil by Derwent)

2/1/2016

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I Yesterday I found myself at Artist & Craftsman Supply in Seattle.  Sometimes my car just simply takes me there. While I was there, I chatted for a minute with two sisters and flipped open my book to show my favorite skin tone color. Off the top of my head, I said that the color was "orange vermilion".  I was remembering wrong.  The color's correct name is Mid Vermilion.  It doesn't look like much on first glance, but makes a nice general skintone (for white folks).  

Inktense pencils are a special formulation of pencils. They behave like super-charged watercolor pencils, and provide vibrant marvelous colors. I lay down a little color onto the paper and then activate it with a waterbrush. Once dry, the color is permanent and can be drawn or painted over without disturbing the color already in place. You can buy them individually online. List price is $2.89.  I've seen them for $1.54.  They aren't available at my favorite art supply store, but there's a big commercial place on Capitol Hill that stocks them.

I have just begun to pay attention to the visual energy fields around people (they look a little like oil-on-water to me, many colors, sort of rainbow, flowing together). Tried to depict it.  These pencils make it a fun experiment. "Let's shed light like my dog sheds fur."

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    Gretchen Williams has been journaling / note-taking in hard-covered blank books since 1970 and has made her own journals for the past few years. She wants to teach 300 people how to make their own journals.

    "It's soul-satisfying to write and draw in books that you've made yourself."

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