Course work: Today I experimented very briefly with Staedler Karat Aquarelle pencils. When applied dry, the color is not nearly as strong as with the Derwent Coloursoft Pencils. A dry finger produces modest blending; a damp finger produces better blending, and in the tested blue pencil, what appears to be a slight shift toward green. The drawn orange was not very intense, and painting half with water increased the intensity only moderately. Mixing complements dry or wet produced unconvincing neutrals. Mixing primary colors dry or wet produced somewhat better secondary colors, but only the orange color produced with red and yellow approached that of the pencil of the same color. Although my experiments were admittedly superficial, I wasn’t very impressed by these pencils.
Reading:
Cathy Johnson The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature
Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1990
Pp 67-100
Total time: 43 minutes
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