Author: Shel Kahn
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Sketchbook Crystal Island WIP
Just playing around between work and comics and life. Neocolor iis and watercolours!
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one year of arm stuff – part 12 –ambidexterity – writing
For six months I had no nerve connection whatsoever to my lower right radial nerve. This meant that all of the muscles it powered were completely switched off, paralyzed, leaving me unable to uncurl my fingers, lift my wrist, tilt my wrist, or open my thumb, and leaving me much weaker at gripping, rotating my…
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Oil Pastel Castle Ruins
After a few weeks away it was great to get home to the oil pastels! I painted this one on canson mi-teintes paper, with sennelier oil pastels, and was reminded that when used on paper, even the greasiest oil pastels do set somewhat! Between days, the pastels set up enough it wasn’t blendable with my…
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one year of arm stuff – part 11 –left hand life
When all this was ramping up, I tried to do a lot of research into what tools I would need to navigate the world with my left hand, and there were two things flooding my search results: things for parents to buy for their left-handed kindergarteners, and mensa nerds looking to minmax their IQ by…
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one year of arm stuff – part 10 – frustration
After surgery, I had planned to take two weeks off of work. The actual surgery itself didn’t sound as intense as some prior ones I’ve had, but I had at least some sense that it would take some time to readjust. In the end I took four weeks off, and I’m hugely grateful to my…
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Test driving my new watercolour palette
A painting from the cafe window and two made up landscapes, to test drive this watercolour selection and see if it’s missing anything. I love how warm the greens can be despite my palette having cobalt teal AND cobalt turquoise! And the granulation is really working for me. I do miss having a near-black blue…
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Sketching cars with markers and neocolor iis
I’ve been enjoying sketching with the neocolours over a base layer or ink or paint, so today I threw a bunch into my bag of crayola mini markers that I normally save for visiting my friends and family with kids. Markers + neocolour iis in the very cheap, light, portable sketch books you can get…
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Vine Tomatoes Still Life in Oil Pastel
For this one i used all my oil pastels, from the hardest to the stickiest to the softest. The grain of the canvas panel was filled in very quickly and because all the pastels besides sennelier are so opaque, i feel like i lost some of the vibrancy I’d found in the strawberry earlier. However,…
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learned something important about my website
i have footnote capabilities already! Ahh, the newly distracting ways I can write, unfolding before my like cells in the library of babel… Unfortunately I am already not to be trusted with most punctuation; I will resist all efforts to simplify my sentences, and I WILL nest (or embed) too many clauses! Anyways, this has…
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Strawberry oil pastel study on canvas board
I’ve been thinking about how the sennelier oil pastels are so soft that you can get full on painting style soft and hard edges etc, and I picked up a few small canvas boards to see if they were a useful substrate for faking oil painting effects! Unfortunately the sennelier pastels are so slippery that…