I’m a fan of decorative fused glass objects for the home. So much so, that I invested in a kiln and all the related supplies. But it brought me no joy, scared me in fact, I worried, “What if it sets the garage on fire”? I’m also not someone who should be handling fragile glass objects being ‘a bull in a china shop’ type person.
So it was a mistake, but in a round-a-bout way it would lead me to buy this book I saw at Michaels one day. It was called Florals By Hand: How to Draw and Design Modern Floral Projects. Shout out to Alli Koch who wrote it.
I thought it would help with my glass design process.
But it got me back into my first artistic love: Drawing. Enter colored pencils.
drawings derived from the “florals by Hand” book
Back to the Drawing Board
Having never worked in colored pencil before, I visited my local library and checked out what would be the first of many books by Bet Borgeson.
My husband Martin bought me a large set of Prismacolor Pencils for my birthday that January, so I used them in a drawing of him and his girlfriend Mojo for Valentine’s Day.
I ended up buying a copy of all Bet’s books off Amazon and spent many hours with them, doing the tutorials and being mentored by her in abstentia.
Learning Colored Pencil Technique Using the Tutorials in Bet Borgeson’s Books
