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This is a challenge from Color Pencil Magazine on FaceBook.

They have monthly art challenge and winner gets to win lots of goodies. I did this because of the colours. These are colours which I hardly, some never, use unless its for blending to add depth to primary colours.

Since I’ve done it, might as well submit but of course, don’t expect to win anything. Should see other artist work, just awesome.

It’s quite a breeze working on this, especially using the Faber-Castell polychromos, since they are oil based, the colours just glide on and no wax bloom like those wax based. But still be using other wax based colour pencils because they have their own distinctive outcome.

I’ve stopped painting for almost 2 days now. taking a break before I start my commissioned work, fingers crossed!

This is my 1st ever portrait. PHEW!!! It’s tough, everything about it, the skin tone, the expression etc..

This is a portrait of my nephew, Gabriel, from my 2nd youngest brother, Julian and Nicole, who are residing in Shanghai currently. Gabby is now almost 6 years old. I came about this photo of his on Facebook, posted by his mom. It immediately caught my attention. The composition of the whole image is just too good to not paint it, especially with the franggipanni flowers on each ear, too cute!

This is how I started on the sketch. I used the grid system. I used a tracing paper and draw out a 1″x 1″ grid and put it against the reference photo, which I enlarged it to A4 size. Then proceed to draw the grind very lightly with a ‘H’ graphite pencil on the drawing paper, the grind size on

This is a tedious painting because it’s painted on drafting linen,

a type of paper that architects use to print out plans. I got this from my husband, who is an architect (lucky me!)

Why linen paper? Well, I’m being ambitious, wanna try coloured pencil on canvas, how about that? So dear hubby said, why not practice on linen paper first? (So sweet of him) So here goes my “experimental” piece. Not too bad, I say!

Instead of using Derwent cp, this time I used solely Faber-Castell polychromos. Their cp colours are super vibrant and are oil based. The texture is creamier and  have a slight gloss finish look. And another thing that I like about FC is that they don’t easily break.

I used measuring cups to draw the circle, yup! the measuring cup for baking (another hobby of mine) as they have different sizes.