This week’s life session was with my namesake Tim, and a big one for drawing in pen and ink work. Still struggling with the larger watercolours and the Inktense, but I think working smaller bears better fruit. There’s another moody dip pen drawing which he was holding a red robe so I decided to use the Khadi A3 paper and selective colour. Problem is, I forgot it spreads like crazy. I had to lift the spread colour many times! You can still see a ghost of that now. Then there was a good A3 pad Woody drawing, similar to the one the previous week with Solly.
As regards Inktense rather slim pickings apart from this quick 5 minute drawing, a detail but I like the single colour. The ink wash was not intentional, I found that the new Faber Castell Pitt brush pens aren’t as waterproof as they say, at least in the time I had. As usual I worked with it…
I also got a Chisel FC Pitt pen, which I think is what I used with the small brush pen for this drawing, using the ‘wash’ and wet-on-wet techniques. I like making pen spread like this, it seems much more controllable than watercolour sometimes. I was intending to do a watercolour with this, hence the F5 paper but left it as is. The other side is a dreadfully bad Inktense painting that you’ll never see..I keep doing this, wrecking nice expensive paper. Glad I pulled it back with the other side.
And then we have the large watercolour – very wet-on-wet and the Fabriano Unica paper really did buckle although it actually dropped mostly flat when dry – I think this is the F5. It was bothering me originally that I couldn’t get any detail to stick on the face or genitals but now think it has a really interesting abstract feel.
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