Fibermania

Studying Sylvia

Three Amigos by Sylvia Megerdichian

I found this artist last year and then lost her name, and yesterday found her again, to my great delight. Her style is so appealing, and if I were to get the urge to paint representationally, I know this is the direction I would want to take.

Well then, why wait?

I happen to have the necessary water color pencils, caran d'ache watercolor crayons and two pears and an apple. The website said that her mixed media pieces used these supplies.

So I printed out some examples and set up my still life and began with a sketch on canvas taped to a plexiglass support.

Two Pears and an Apple

12"square watermedia on canvas

I used only the watercolor crayons and watercolor pencils, no other paint, just water.



I impressed myself! I have always wanted to paint like this. I stopped myself from gooping it up.

But that like took only minutes, and I was hot for more, so I taped another sheet of primed canvas and proceed to attack another version.

Canvas #2 with acrylic and prismacolor pencils (12"square)

Not quite as lovely as Sylvia's, and much more like Wayne Thiebaud's work. Nothing wrong with that, but not my intention. O well I will not give up. Perhaps working on paper would give the right surface for the results I seek.