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NOTES QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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We all can learn from your question!
"Don't ever be shy to learn more about art!"
(John)
John
I have visited your wonderful site and
would just like to thank you for all the
free information you put on there for the
public. It is just great information for
people like myself who is just a learner
and an oldie at that, who more or less
has to teach themselves because of
lack of resources where I live.
I was just wondering if I could ask you
a question - when you do your drawings
with the pastel then go on to coloured
pencil do you use a fixative on your
pastel before you put down the coloured
pencil. I use a few different mediums
including coloured pencil and pastel.
I realise you are a professional and if
my question is out of place
please ignore.
Many thanks
Marl Whiteman
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Hello Marlene
If you can see I start with thin pencil lines,
followed by thin guide lines in pen and ink.
After that I place a thin layer of soft pastels
on my paper and spread it out with my
fingertips.
The key is that the layer of soft pastels
can't be too thick otherwise the next layer
with pen and ink will flow in the pastels.
Later on before I start with my color pencils
I can ad more soft pastel colors on the
placed who need them.
After I finished the pen and in part and the
soft pastels touch up I work with my color
pencils.
If everything is on color and in my eyes done,
I touch up the complete drawing a little
bit with my pen and ink.
But I have to watch out for the thicker parts
of soft pastels on my drawing.
I hope this will help you and explain a little
bit the way I work.
Please keep creating from your hearth
and soul.
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Dear Sir,
how do you draw white hair
with colored pencil on
white background?
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Hello
Drawing with hair on a white board is
a matter of a few shades in the
hair (this with darbk brown and black).
To get the best reasult is it very important
that you choose the right
background (don't leave it compleet white)
and the rest of the face.
I hope you know now what to do and send
me the results when you finished..
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Hi, John,
What is duifjes paper?
Toby
The Breathing Art Studio
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Hello Toby
Duifjes paper is made in Holland.
The surface is very hard with a lot of
gum.
It's a perfect paper for pendrawings.
Because its hard you can also work
with scalpel to make thin white lines
and correct small mistakes.
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I want to know if you work with
pastels and color pencils together
on the same work.
thanks,
Carlos
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Hello Carlos
Yes that is possible
It's a long and not so easy job
but you get nice results.
The pastels for the color as first layer
and the pencils for the for the details.
With the pen and ink I do the fine details.
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Hi john!
I am very lucky today because
I find your adress.
I am from turkey and my name is gülçin .
(I love van gogh more than my boy friend!)
I want to go fine arts faculty in turkey but
its very difficult here!
I must study too much.
I want to ask you a question.
have you ever seen a painting called''
old guitarist'' from picasso?
I don't know what can I do to see it.
can you help me?
hope to see your answer.
see you later...gülçin
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The Picture called:
The old blind gitar player
oil on canvas
92X125 cm
made in barcelona 1903
no date on it .It's in the museum of
Poesjki in Moskow on the back are
painted the followin title
Picasso//called de la Merced 3//
piso 2// Barselona
In swiss is a drawing of this work
called 91a made in red color in
pencil 26 x 35 cm
signed with Z-32 nr.170,DB-66IX
nr 29
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Dear John:
Do you do any work with
water colors like "Rodger Dean"?
You do nice work!!
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No, I don't work with watercolor.
I make the drawings with the
watercolor look with watercolor pencils.
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Hello,
I saw your web site and I am very
impressed.
I have completed an associate degree in
commercial art, but I prefer doing portraits.
I was hoping you could tell me how or
what is the best way to get started.
I have done some design work for the
college.I appreciate your time.
Thank you very much.
Kim from Longview, Texas
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Hello Kim
Maybe a short answer but what you
have to do is, begin!
Take a pencil and some paper and
draw everything around you.
Maybe my courses can help you!
Succes
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I found a link to your website
and I really admire your artwork.
I also love to draw, but its weird,
it really depends on what type of
mood I'm in. When I'm in the right
mood, I can draw extremely good.
but other times I cant draw.
So do you have any tips?
Thanks.
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Drawing is not your daily work!
Art is working with your feelings, heart,
soul and mood.
You see this if you go to the museum
and see artwork together of one artist.
You feel the way he is thinking at the
time he is working on his work.
Don't be afraid of working with your
mood. I was out of drawing sometimes
over an month!
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How do find out if your designs are
accurate?
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I show people my work to experts
in that category if the drawing is accurate.
With nature drawings I go to our
biologist near my house and show
him my work.
Also I try to find as much as possible
photos to work with as reference.
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How much research do you need to
do before you start to design?
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First of all I go to my own books
(I have ma small library at home)
Second I go to our local library
and hope to find more about my
object at the last I surf on the web
to find out if I forget something.
Normally it takes more as a week
to get all the information together.
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On your new portrait of your mother,
how much of the darks in the eyes are
accomplished with pen and ink vs.
darker pencils?
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The pen will be covers about
pencils for 70%
The dark of the pencil is not black
enough and with pen and ink you can
draw the nerves and detail of an eye.
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Do you use bristol for these drawing?
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I working on "shulerhammer"
a paper very hard but the papermill
don't excist any more.
I have to find other thick hard paper.
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What kind of colored pencils
do you combine pastels with?
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I work with Caran D'ache
Color pencils in combination
with Talens pastels.
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Do you use a wax-baxed pencil
like Prismacolor?
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The color pencils are aquarell pencils.
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Can you draw on top of both
of these with ink?
That's what I understood from
your site.
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Yes,I developed a technique where it's
possible to do that.
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Do you work from photos?
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Most drawings I make from a
combination of photo's because
I can't get the details.
Nature drawings and dog I make
also on location.
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The first important guidelines;
these are in ink?
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Yes, I make the first set-up in thin
pencil lines after that I begin with thin
Pen & Ink lines so I can see them
Through the pastel parts later.
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Hi John
It is somewhat of a curiosity to me that
you work from light to dark, at least in
some portions of this piece.
Is this your general practice or is it media
and piece specific?
I pretty much go from dark to light.
I would also love to hear how other
artists work.
Regards
Dan
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Hello Dan
Thank you for your questions and if
you know I always open for good
questions or critic.
According the question about
working from light to dark. I think
you can always make parts darker,
if needed and you will see that later
in this drawing because at this
moment some parts are to light.
If you begin with the darker parts
you can't make or its difficulty to
make them lighter.
It's a technique I master from the
beginning and some artteachers
thinking a other way! But there are
people like you they working from
dark to light and for me its no
problem I love to see the different
ways how people working in the
different media's.
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What is a dry point?
Please explain.
You mentioned this on your
latest drawing of the cats.
Toby
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He Toby
If you dip your pen in the ink the
whole pen is full of ink.
With a handkerchief I make the pen
almost dry and with that little bit of ink
I make these fine lines.
I show that on the page
http://www.johnbaselmans.com/Courses/
Workwith/Penink/Pen_ink.htm
You see me at work in pen and Ink.
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Hi John,I loved the work
on the house.
Did you take your own
Photo of this house?
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From all the objects I draw I make my own
pictures.
I want to see the real object and from the
place where I think it's the best angle.
I walk always with my Nikon 5000 digital
camera and take pictures everywhere.
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I have a question though.
Do you have models for the
pictures you?
draw, or do you draw them from a
photograph? I have never been able
to just sit down and draw something
from my head. I have to have a
picture to look at.
Vickie
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I make first sketches of the people I draw
Normally also the first setup on my paper.
After that I make some photographs and
make all the details and work the drawing
out.
It's for the person not to do to sit still over
40 to 50 hours
And why if we have the technique.
An other problem is that I work mostly at
night till deep in the morning and who
want to sit in front for you that time?
From my sketches I get the right
impression of the person and feel where
I have to put the important lines.
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Your drawing is absolutely beautiful!
It's so wonderfully rich! I was
wondering, do you ever run into
trouble (as far as bringing the
drawing together), finishing one
part before starting on the other?
I was always told to start the whole
drawing and work on the whole
thing to keep it from looking
fragmented.
Ana
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I will try to answer it.
Over 35 years I draw this way.
There were on school sometimes
some problems with my teachers because
I did not always how they want it!!
Why? Because I draw from inside me.
I try explain; If I start a drawing I placed
first my images together in my mind, find
some reference and make a set-up of the
drawing.
I leave it for a long time (sometime months)
on my desk and only look at this drawing.
If I think I'm ready for it I will start the drawing
beginning with the eyes.
I have the whole picture already in my head
and I have it only draw it on paper!
Yes only!! Because the difficult part is already
done in my mind.
That's the reason I don't listening always to
my teacher and believe in drawing from your
heart and mind.
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