Sketches and Studies by Craig Houghton

Craig Houghton September 13th, 2007

I think I’m going to start a series consisting of isolated areas of the body. At the very least, it’ll be good practice.

I couldn’t sleep, so I did some test runs. pastel and charcoal on ink-stained hot press watercolor paper. small, around 5×4 or so each

• charcoal , pastel , figures , women
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Craig Houghton July 5th, 2007

Women of all ages across mediums and styles.

• colored pencil , graphite , charcoal , pastel , acrylic , pen , digital , figures , women , watercolor , illustrations , oil , portraits , ink , vids
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Craig Houghton April 22nd, 2007

white over charcoal over ochre over ink

• charcoal , pastel
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Craig Houghton February 7th, 2007

I started a new toned fabriano sketchbook today. Here’s an edge of the woods sketch from during lunch today.

Thanks for looking

• charcoal , pastel , plants , landscapes , plein air
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Craig Houghton January 5th, 2007

Blog’s open.

Last weekend I was impressed with a floral from Susan Dorothea’s book, Draw Like Da Vinci. I tried her technique, using a pastel pencil in place of the goldpoint. I built up the whole structure with the gold, worked over the darker values with a charcoal pencil, and used a General’s white charcoal to finish it off. I think I’ll revisit the technique. I’m looking trying out some of the book’s silverpoint suggestions as well.

brown-headed cowbird, 4×5 pastel and charcoal on ink-stained hot press paper

I originally had some text there, but my handwriting is awful. I cloned it away in Painter afterwards.

-Craig

• birds , techniques , charcoal , pastel
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