It’s 100% cotton and very soft, but it does require the artist to apply multiple, layered applications with colored pencils. This drawing is created on Stonehenge paper, which is a wonderful surface for colored pencils. This is not required, as I use the PanPastel material to basically create an underpainting or a base in which to apply colored pencils over the top. You can use any brand that you wish and get similar results. I wanted to capture that in a drawing and I’m going to share with you that process in this lesson.įor this particular drawing, I use Prismacolor Premier colored pencils, which are wax-based pencils. And recently it snowed quite a bit here and that meant it was time for a fun snow day on our sledding hill. But when it does snow, it’s quite the event. And fortunately, around here, we don’t get much snow. But about the only thing that I can tolerate with winter is probably the snow. You’re now ready to go back to the scale diagram and incorporate these final measurements, thus transforming the scale diagram into the final landscape design plan.As many of you know, I absolutely hate the winter. When you’ve finished, take the final measurements for these spaces. When you change your mind on any of the spaces, adjust the stakes and string accordingly. Does your layout of the spaces still make sense? Have you used the spaces as effectively as possible? Do you find one of the paths meandering too much, when it should instead be making a beeline from point A to point B? Now walk in between these spaces, noting the flow of traffic patterns. Repeat the process for the other “bubble” spaces. Pound stakes into the ground around one of the spaces you’ve tentatively defined in the bubble diagram. Here’s where stakes and string may come in handy. No problem: Just get another piece of tracing paper and revise your initial drawing.īefore settling on a final bubble diagram, concretize the project in any way you can, to see what will work and what won’t. You’ll find yourself rejecting some of the bubbles as you go along, for whatever reason (e.g., insufficient space, conflict with utility lines). The result is an accurate measurement, in scale, of the curved planting bed.ĭon’t expect to complete the finalized version of the bubble diagram immediately. When you’re done, you record all the points you just measured on the graph paper, maintaining the same scale. Repeat the process to measure the far side of the bed.Repeat every 3 feet, until you reach the other end of the bed, jotting down all your measurements. ![]()
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