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Lon, there is something about drawing, I can't make myself stop. I thought that maybe, after I had already made the drawing, that the blended graphite might act as an underpainting of sorts.
I bought 2 big sheets of the same paper. On the scratch sheet I put down some graphite and washed over it. It didn't seem to disturb the pencil marks at all, or discolor the wash. I then, just for curiosity, laid down some soft vine charcoal to see what would happen to the wash. I thought it would just liquify and integrate into the wash but to my suprise it also stayed in place.
My first attempt at flesh tones on my scratch sheet was way to heavy handed. This is such a delicate medium. After a couple more attempts I'm getting better at, and understanding more, the subtlety.
Chris, your point about some passages having only a single thin wash concerns me the most. I may finish this out with some charcoal shading and call it a finished drawing. If I do I'm going to start over and do less drawing. I do want to make a stab at w/c.
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Mike McCarty
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