Tag: pen and wash
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Herdies say “hey”
Or should that be “hay”? Anyway, here’s the watercolour version of my hungry sheep! I may still add some detail to the foreground but it’s very much a pen-and-wash so I don’t want to go in too heavy with the paint. What do you think?
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Spot the sheep!!
Spot the sheep!! This is a slightly crap photo of my latest pen-and-ink-and-watercolour, because the paper buckled and created an odd corrugated effect. It’s of a scene in Coppermines Valley, Coniston that I photographed in dramatic conditions earlier this year. I used blue pastel paper because I happened to have a small piece left over…
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And the colour version…!
I tried using watercolours on the farm buildings sketch I posted the other day. I really wanted to highlight the vivid pink of the hydrangeas on the wall – it’s not there yet but I can always fiddle with it some more once it’s fully dry…
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Nervous of watercolours…
I was too nervous to just plunge in and try watercolours on my latest pen and ink drawing. So, wimp that I am, I scanned it, printed it out on ordinary computer paper, and used the watercolours on that. And… I’m surprised… in a good way, because it’s come out looking much better than I…
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Decisions, decisions…
This is a new pen and ink sketch of the launches on Derwentwater, moored up at the Keswick jetties. I planned on doing a pen and watercolour wash type thing for this but am now wavering because a. I can’t decide whether to opt for naturalistic colours or something a bit more abstract and b.…
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Trying pen and wash
For our last session of Windermere Art Society for the season, there was a fantastic demo and workshop on the techniques of drawing in waterproof ink and then highlighting with watercolour. I enjoyed the session so much I completely lost track of time – in fact the picture was still wet when I came to…
