This is the last day o f 2018 and I woke up thinking "perhaps I could add some Inktense pencil on top of the tree study I've been playing with and that might make the streakiness fade." Well, I've played with it -- and then added some of my metallic watercolor pencils, too, and then worked in some more of my oil-based colored pencils. . . all of this on my latest obsession -- using black paper as my base. Have I learned anything from these exercises? It's doubtful! I've i