Course work: An approaching front provided some cirrocumulus clouds to draw. I rubbed some charcoal dust to make a fairly uniform background, then worked in the cloud forms with white Conté crayon, but quickly discovered this wasn’t white enough, and switched to white pastel, which produced a somewhat better result, though lacking in depth because I was looking upward at about a 45° angle,
Reading:
Rose-Marie & Ranier Hagen What Great Paintings Say (Vol. 1)
Taschen, Köln, 2005
Pp 327-331
Eric Sloane Skies and the Artist
Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York, USA, 2006
Pp1-39
(This very brief work is almost all illustrations, but contains some useful ideas concerning cloud drawing and painting. It is a reprint of a book first published in 1950.)
Personal sketchbook work: A quick drawing of our black cat sleeping, done with white and black Conté crayon.
Total time: 1 hour 9 minutes
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