Category: Conte crayon
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Life Drawing #70 – Gabriella (Megan)
This session was all about ink. Several fountain pen ink varieties from iron gall ink aka Diamine Registrar’s blue/black ink, Rorher & Klingner’s Sketchink ‘Lotte’ Black ink and my regular Indian inks but with new flex nibs (Zebra G and Nikko G) for my dip pen. The idea was to use them in my JinHao…
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Sip & Sketch – Sayed
The first and probably the last Sip & Sketch for reasons I won’t go into here, but it was a success with Sayed modelling and I did some nice quill/ink pieces and a rather wonky yet charming free watercolour called “We Are Devo” as he was wearing a Devo t-shirt with what looked like zombies…
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The Hollow Tree
In the distance of the last tree picture was a scary rickety looking tree. I feel that work is a prequel to this one – it was where I was originally heading anyway. I’ve called it The Hollow Tree because as you can see from the pictures it is hollow but still alive! At some…
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Dead Tree #2
I said I had painted a lot of dead trees! We’re not even finished yet… This was a piece painted over a few days, both very stormy and threatening rain. I did the watercolour and it got dark, came back a few days later as I felt it was incomplete and sod’s law, someone had…
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Dead Trees & Deer
Another visit to Home Park, this time to paint dead trees (or in the case of the image above, fallen trees that are still living, an image of hope for me – but are like zombie trees, living yet dead. Dead or fallen trees have become a series for me since the fallen image above…
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Double Vision: Home & Bushy Park
Seeing double was the order of the day with these two works. The first “Irises’ above and below is of the imaginatively named ‘Long Water’ in front of Hampton Court was of the ranks of marching trees I’ve been obsessed with for a long time, a Gursky sort of landscape. It’s also a nod to…
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