“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art does not.” Leonardo Da Vinci
Today apart from posting my two more drawings in the “Sparrow series”, I decided to dedicate this post to “How and when I started using Strathmore toned paper” and “what I love most about it”. To be frank, it’s been years and it is difficult to keep a track of lots of things that have happened while I have been moving ahead in my art journey. Therefore my BLOG and INSTAGRAM help me go down the memory lane to browse through the recorded facts and I feel so grateful that I started sharing my artworks with the art community from around the world.
After checking the data I realised that my earliest drawing of “Eye Study” was posted on April 17th, 2017. So it was definitely around that time when I visited Art Lounge, which during those days was situated at Churchgate. I along with a friend of mine had traveled by local train to do our yearly “Art Stationery Shopping”. It see to be fun. I had seen some lovely charcoal and graphite drawings on Strathmore paper and that inspired me to one for myself and check it out. My first pad that I purchased, as shown below, continues to be used even today as there are still some papers left in it.
Strathmore gray toned paper pad
( 50 sheets )
My fascination for the subject “Sparrow” started after I started having plenty of sparrows all of a sudden in my balcony. It has been a pleasant change and I wake up to chirping of this beautiful species and it’s such a great way of starting the day. Sometimes I just quietly stand at one corner and watch their playful activities.
For both the “
Sparrow sketches” as given below, I have used
Camlin graphite pencils namely 3B, 6B and 9B. For white pastel shading I have used
Conte A Paris and
General white pastel pencil. For my earlier sketching I experimented with combining graphite with
Staedtler charcoal pencil, however I realised the blending does not go well. So I decided to keep my artwork limited to plain
graphite strokes.
Holding on
A graphite drawing on Strathmore drawing paper
Size 4” X 5.5”
Balancing Act
A graphite drawing on Strathmore drawing paper
Size 4” X 5.5”
1. It is 100% recycled, contains 30% post consumer fibre and is acid free.
2. The paper works great with graphite, charcoal, color pencils, ink etc and is very versatile.
3. It has a smooth surface and very fine texture which helps in holding the graphite and charcoal medium
pretty well.
4. Strathmore toned paper is available in two shades, gray and tan, which work as mid tone values. This
makes it easier to judge the dark and light values and saves a lot of time as we need to apply only the
lighter and darker tones.
5. The paper is 118 gsm and this thickness is perfect to create some great artworks.
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