Elena C Serrano

I always liked to sketch with graphite and blue markers, I guess that’s why? I’d keep light as the white of the paper.
There’s also a lot of blue where I live. When I do landscape studies of the city, I’ll tend to use graphite and Payne’s gray for the buildings and washes for the sky. I like the negative space effect that it generates.

Lovely studies, Trissa!

I normally work on full illustrations, so they tend to have a variety of colors (though I try to keep the palettes limited). If I had to choose two colors to work with (sketching and painting studies) I’d go for W&N Cerulean blue (student half-pan) and Schmincke’s Payne’s Grey (blue shade).