Thank you. I think the show will be an education. Kentucky is very definitely craft oriented rather than hang on the wall fine art oriented and this will be the first art show I’ve done for 20 years, since I left MT. Very different market, if there is much market at all but looking forward to it.

I really like the way graphite works on the drafting film and I’ve found that the Goldfaber colored pencils by Faber-Castell seem to work better on the film than any of the other colored pencils I have (mostly Prismacolors). The art supply stores I usually order from don’t seem to carry them in open stock, but Hobby Lobby does and I’ve found a couple of small used sets on eBay.

Most of my work has been done in graphite and that’s what I started with on drafting film. It has enough tooth to hold the graphite well, you can get wonderful detail with it, though it does require a very light hand, doesn’t do a lot of layers.

Color has been trial and error for me as I’m still learning how to use both colored pencil and pastels effectively. So far, like it, though.

What I like most about it is the depth you can get when you use both sides of the film as well as the effects you can get with layering. The photo I’ve posted is a WIP that shows one of the ways I use the layering, foreground done on drafting film, laid over a graphite sketch on Bristol for the background.

What I’ve had to learn is a much lighter touch and the fact that it doesn’t accept many layers. It does erase quite well and I’ve used a knife blade to scrape off an area for a total re-work. Both tend to flatten what tooth is there and I’ve been experimenting with covering everything except the exact area I need to rework and spraying lightly with a textured spray. That seems to help.