Fundamentals: Pencil Technique

You can load your journal kit with expensive and fancy tools but few are as universal, versatile, handy and reliable as a graphite pencil. Learn how to get the most mileage out of your pencils and practice fundamental drawing skills. This workshop will establish a platform for work with any subject. We will investigate pencil techniques with line and value, drawing with a tortillion, and creatively using an eraser.

Suggested supplies to follow along with the demonstration:

1. Graphite pencils (HB,  2B, and 4B)
2. Pencil sharpener
3. Kneaded eraser
4. Paper blender (tortillion) You can buy one or make your own.
5. Pen knife
6. White plastic eraser
7. Erasing shield

Note the temporary new location for the workshop- Belvedere Tiburon Library. Next month we will be back at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center.

From points north of Mill Valley and Tiburon, take 101 South to the Tiburon Blvd./East Blithedale exit. At the exit make a left and follow Tiburon Blvd., California Rt. 131, for about 4 miles into Tiburon. The Belvedere-Tiburon Library will be on your left at 1501 Tiburon Blvd. The parking lot is on the south side of the building between the Library and Tiburon Town Hall.

From points south, cross the Golden Gate Bridge, take 101 North to the Tiburon Blvd./East Blithedale exit. At the exit make a right and follow Tiburon Blvd., California Rt. 131, for about 4 miles into Tiburon. The Belvedere-Tiburon Library will be on your left at 1501 Tiburon Blvd. The parking lot is on the south side of the building between the Library and Tiburon Town Hall.