Friday, 21 November 2014

Coloured Pencils Again

Today something for both Paint Party Friday and Art Journal Journey.

This months theme over at AJJ is 'Inspired by the Masters'. The idea is that you create something in the style of a famous artist. For my first offering I chose to work in coloured pencils in the style of 'Modigliani'. You can see it here.

At the moment I have been focusing on using coloured pencils, a medium that I am trying to improve on so my second offering for AJJ is also in coloured pencils along with gel pens. The artist I have chosen this time is 'Klimt'.


I have a lovely book on Klimt and I used the picture on the left  as inspiration for this piece.


coloured pencil & gel pens
on black paper.

I had such a terrible time trying to photograph this. The daylight is really bad today so I had to put the electric light to highlight the gold  in her hair. It's times like this I think I should make the effort to set up my light tent 

Thanks for visiting. x


23 comments:

  1. Your Emilie Flöge is soo beautiful! Love her!
    Thank you for sharing her with us at Art Journal Journey!
    Have a happy weekend!

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  2. I love Klimt and your Klimt inspired drawing. Great details!

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  3. Beautiful work! Thanks for another wonderful contribution to Art Journal Journey! Valerie

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  4. Love her hair with the glints of gold. Her intricate dress design looks like it was lots of fun to create.

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  5. Wonderful take on Klimt! The colored pencil/gel pen combo work very well together.

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  6. Love your Klimt girl. Her hair is gorgeous.

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  7. Your Klimt art is fantastic!! I was inspired to create something of his too and now I want to go to the library to find a book about him and his art. I love that this AJJ theme has opened many of us up to artists we may not have known otherwise.

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  8. you did an amazing job with klimt, I love yours.

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  9. love the idea of doing Klimt work over black paper. Brilliant!

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  10. I adore klimt as you know and this is wonderful. I too love the idea of using black paper. It has made the gold really sing!

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  11. Your Klimt work is beautiful - very well done.

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  12. Wonderful Klimt work....very nice job! You can put your artwork in pixlr color then saturation to brighten it up if need be! Super easy at pixlr express!

    Hugs Giggles

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  13. She has so much character and charm. I love your take on Klimt's style. He is one of my muses. Havel a lovely week,Carol. xo

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  14. Love your inspiration, your technique and the lovely, expressive outcome too!

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  15. She is beautiful, I love her dress and the golden highlights show up really well. Great work Carol (hugs)

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  16. I like your version of Klimt's painting. I always use my scanner for smaller paintings, it's so much easier that taking photographs. Sometimes colours can come out quite differently though, especially neon colours, and maybe also gold colours (haven't used much gold yet, so can't really tell ...)

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  17. Gorgeous, I love how the gel pens stand out!

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  18. Very beautiful - I love the feel of the piece, she's so elegant and that hair is amazing!

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  19. You are really rolling with the pencils and black paper Carol this is fabulous

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  20. I love it. very good representation of a Klimt.

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