Art Supplies Found in the Wild

Ok, not completely in the wild, but at least in someone's garden driveway! 

While visiting our neighbor Nacho, I found some rich, black, thick charcoal laying around some flower bushes. The type of charcoal that’s found in a 2x3x1 inch box in an art supply store and sells for a few dollars. The juicy charcoal that oozes blackness on paper…and smudges and brushes away easily to make grays. 

Nacho laughed at me for asking for his charcoal. Charcoal in Costa Rica is used as deodorant or for gardening fertilizer, not art supplies. He shrugged and offered me more charcoal. I took just what I needed. After all, I just found an almost endless supply, right across our road!!!

I finally got to make the value chart I needed for class! 

If you happen to be in Uvita, Costa Rica, come out and see me and three more awesome artists at Dolce Uvita on Saturday, December 11th, 2021, from 10 am – 3 pm. For more info, https://dolceuvita.com

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Finished value chart with the supplies I used. The charcoal is between the tape and sketchbook. The plastic wrap was carefully removed from the sketchbook to “laminate” my value strip so the charcoal doesn’t rub off.