Tag: Indian Ink

  • Portraits At The Pub 32: George & Julan

    Portraits At The Pub 32: George & Julan

    I have been really lazy with uploading my work here and over at Instagram – I have been working away, scanning and documenting it, just not posting it. Hence this is the portraits session from 2 weeks ago, with the first pose by Julan and then George for the rest of the session. The Julan…

  • X-Series & Marine Abstracts

    X-Series & Marine Abstracts

    Following the lead of 2020’s Zebra Abstracts I did some large A1 garden abstracts last year using some (then new) FW Acrylic Inks – called the X-Series or X-Men series due to the prominent X in a circle but I don’t want to get sued by Marvel (and I really am not a fanboy of…

  • Never Mind The Pollards

    Never Mind The Pollards

    Every spring I become obsessed with the pollarded (is that a verb?) Maple trees along my road, like weird alien antenna sticking out of stumps. I’ve drawn them before and they’ve appeared in the background of my works, but this spring I did a series of drawings and paintings of them. Like this fountain pen…

  • Ink Lightfastness Tests

    Ink Lightfastness Tests

    Weird to be presenting lightfast tests in the darkest time of the year but since last summer I have been testing the various inks I use for lightfastness, and here are the results. Lightfastness is the way pigments and dyes react to UV light – if they aren’t lightfast they fade or shift in colour…

  • Bird studies

    Bird studies

    Prompted by my posting of my parakeet studies, I remembered this session but couldn’t find it here. Not sure why these bird studies from November 2019 were never added, I guess they fell through the cracks because they are a really rare thing from me: pencil drawing. I have a complicated history with pencil because…