day four

Learned something interesting. Sometimes, I am so used to using the things I am using, that I am not even paying attention. case in point here. My little pot of gesso was in fact white acrylic. Which is great for quick cover... but not so great for drawing on top of. My brown colored pencil here was slip sliding all over the place.

And THAT was the suck.

And then, my matt medium turned out to be gloss medium. More slip slidey, more suck.

Thank god for art supply stores.

"I need matt medium," I tell the guy behind the counter. "All I have is gloss medium, and GLOSS medium... is SO not matt medium!"

he nods soberly, as indeed it is not.

anyway. next sketch will most likely have a little more attachment to it's surface.