Using coloured pencils – I have been using Caran D’Ache Luminance coloured pencils for some time now. I love the intense colours that the waxiness of pencils can produce. It has been fun drawing flowers and selecting colours both for the flowers and the surrounding areas. With oil painting, layering is important to me and I love using these pencils in thhe same way. I have been working on a number of flower drawings, mostly flowers I have always loved and have included them in my series ‘in the garden’ – here is my link. Succulents are a new favorite for me – sometimes their colours are striking but other times more subtle shades of pink, mauve and grey. I have been planting more succulents in pots and I love the plump shapes – like jade, crown-of-thorns, aeonium. I often take photos of small patches of succulents I find, often in someone else’s garden – it reminds me of my intrigue with moss along the edges of a pathway when I was a child.
