Colored Pencil and Peppers

The past two weeks have been spent shifting my thinking

 from a PC  laptop to a huge new computer monitor, an iMac.

I am struggling with many issues but think I have been able to add to my blog.

 Several weeks ago I found a lot of these wonderful peppers

 at the Farmers Market and bought many more of them for a dining table centerpiece.

 Taking some of them into the studio I drew this sketch on white paper.

This pen and ink was in a previous blog.

 I no longer have PhotoShop Elements so could not lighten the right side of this photo. 

Before the peppers dried I worked on this colored pencil painting 

using the above reference photo and the actual peppers to capture the bright colors.

Again, without PSE I could not lighten the white background 

of this photo taken by my iPad. 

Perhaps there is someplace on this Mac to accomplish 

what I need but otherwise I may be reinvesting in PhotoShop.

 Saturday I enjoyed a tour through the house and studio by the 

Renwick Alliance. So most of last week was not spent 

learning the iMac but getting ready for the tour. 

Now I will again work at learning by shifting my thinking 

and back to the studio for some much needed creative work.

Procreate App and drawing zinnias

 From Dominie's garden are a couple of my favorite flowers, zinnias.

I haven't had much time to do any more than quickly draw them. 

Here, below is a page from my sketchbook using pencil, pen and ink.

After drawing several zinnias in black and white on paper I 

decided to try some of the same views on the iPad. 

Using the Procreate App with its brush tool, I drew these 

images much more quickly than on the paper. 

It was interesting to see these two reproductions and how 

much more contrast the drawings on the iPad appear to

 have on the computer monitor.

I do plan to embroider at least one of these zinnias in

colorful thread.