Getting messy
I´ve decided to go out of my comfort zone even more these last few drawings of my December challenge (to draw from imagination every day). I am going to try a few landscapes in a very limited palette, plus I´ll be working with Neocolor II crayons dipped in water to try to avoid my usual controlled details.
I chose five light colours today, plus white, which made it kind of hard to achieve any real contrasts, but since the colours are very different from each other I thought I´d be able to get a feeling of light and shadow anyway. Sadly, the blue turned into green everywhere, since I didn´t manage to keep it clean from the yellow and yellow ochre, but I liked the exercise anyway.
I particularly like that this is more like painting than drawing. A Neocolor II crayon dipped in water gets very blunt after a while, so you have to lay down the colours in patches rather than lines, and you feel like you´re painting with a huge brush rather than drawing with a crayon. I also like the feeling of these crayons when wet, it´s like smearing melted butter. 
15 x 20,5 cm, light grey Pitt brush pen and Neocolor II crayons on drawing paper.
Wow, what a neat effect! It’s beautiful.
Very interesting effect indeed. I have a set of 20 of these but never tried them wet before applying to the paper. I either lay the crayon color in first, then add water, or just take the color off the crayon with a brush. I started a painting with them but haven’t finished it yet.
I’m just loving your whole December series. So much fun to see how your art is evolving. This one is beautiful.
I like the idea of using the crayons wet. I have been thinking of getting some Neocolors myself. Seeing this makes me want to go right now.
Aren’t Neocolors so much fun? Lovely piece, I like the light and shadows.
This really is beautiful – it just shimmers with light. I love the way you’ve been creating your own little summer space in the dark of winter.
This one looks like you’re thinking of spring.