Inspired by other very talented colored pencil artists, I have decided to start an after-dark picture. An after-dark picture? you may ask? Yes indeed, I reply.
I took several dozen pictures of a cheerful colonial downtown in Virginia, and I myself, as a part girly-girl part tomboy, melted like an orange popsicle on the hottest of Virginia days when I saw this handsome well-dressed couple walk down the street. They were walking together, the man with his arm wrapped tenderly around the woman. I thought, Wow! What a beautiful photo, or maybe even colored pencil piece this would create. I snapped a shot before they became too far down the street, and on the right is what my camera entrapped.
Very soon after I downloaded it onto the miraculously slow laptop that resides lazily on the desk, I decided that I must do it as my afterdark picture. The bricks itched to be sketched, the shapes of the lanterns, begged to be filled, the people, wished to be made alive on paper....
Oh, stop being so gushy! she smacks herself in the forehead.
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