Urban Clock
with a Micron .005 pen and watercolor.
I signed up for a course by Paul Kelley whose work I admire. It’s a brand new course called ”Sketching Foundations” and Paul’s first attempt at creating a video course. I have to say he did an excellent job with it. It’s a concise package of modules with demo videos showing how he goes about creating brief sketches of architectural oriented subjects. He creates beautiful sketches and the techniques can be applied to any subject matter.
About seven years ago, ink and watercolor sketches were pretty much all I did up to that point. Since then I’ve studied oil painting, ink drawing and pencil drawing extensively. I like ’em all but I always hear this little voice in my head saying kinda spooky like, ”iiiiink and watercolorrrrrrr, iiiiink and watercolorrrrrr…” so I think I’ll satisfy the voice and do some ink and watercolor.😉 I don’t wanna make the little guy angry and have him start gnawing on my brain!
This one is my version of the demo Paul does in the last module. I have to say it is really fun to sketch using this very loose technique. Check out his course at Sketch Inspired. If you like the style you won’t be disappointed in the course.
Hey Don, always best to listen to that little voice as it only gets bigger and won’t go away. This looks fun. Your last few posts of facial drawings have been beautifully rendered. Different tools make small but very noticeable differences. It’s been lovely to follow your journey.
Thanks Verna.🙂 Glad the posts are enjoyable for you! And yes, different tools yield noticeably different results both in the creation and outcome of the finished work. Some are more difficult to control. I have found that the scale of the marks made need to work well with the scale of the image. Otherwise it just looks out of balance. Today I’m doing a little clock tower scene from Italy with a .003mm Micron pen. That’s the smallest point available. With this new style I’m studying, and the sketchbook size, it seems to be the best pen. I’ll post it today and we’ll see how it goes.😉
So glad you are listening to that voice (maybe I sent it to gnaw at your brain…LOL) I have
always been such a big fan of ink sketch and watercolor and yours was and is the best!!!
I love your sketches in ink. I must say you are such an artist and I admire and understand
your ability and desire to dabble in all the different medias….you are excellent in all you do!
Makes me so happy to be part of your journey! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Linda!
You know, I reckon I’m just a kite. I seemingly flit from one thing to the next but I’m held in control by a string tied to a chair in one arena, creativity. Focusing isn’t to hard for me but remaining focused on one purpose for a loooong time definitely is. When I was a career man, if my part of a project lasted longer than a month, I was burnt out on it. ADD perhaps? Squirrel! Gotta go!