When you draw with a white pencil on black paper, it works very nicely. You draw the light, instead of the shadows. But in my enthusiasm, I sometimes press too hard, which makes the paper smoother, so to speak, and then it becomes less white. So I was very happy when I discovered white charcoal, in pencil form! Birds are beautiful to draw, with their feathers always giving a certain direction. Doing the eye in colour makes it stand out more. Now I have to learn to be more patient, because I prefer to finish a drawing the same day. I think it will be even better when I take my time. Being worked on!
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…