Drawing the Natural World

Drawing the Natural World

Drawing on Sandpaper

Video tutorial: Heliconias in Colored Pencil

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Val Webb
Feb 15, 2025
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It’s fun to draw on nontraditional surfaces. I first realized this in fourth grade, using waterproof markers to draw animals on all my classmates’ desks. I’m old, so the desks were made of well-worn oak. I loved the results; my teacher did not… so I spent every recess period for the rest of the year, sandpaper in hand, scrubbing my artwork away.

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