Cordon Road

This is very close to home, just south of Silverton Road on Cordon Road heading south. The scene is typical for late November with trees silhouetted against a spectacular backlight sky.

I drew this with ink in my sketchbook. It’s fun to smear water and ink around first with my finger to get the sky and road and then after that is dry to add detail with pen and ink. I used a combination of brush pen, fountain pen, and gel pen and a bit of white marker for the two lines on the road.

Travelogue Artist Watercolor Journal, mix of black and blue Pentel Sign pen ink, vintage Sheaffer’s Balance Black and Pearl Lifetime pen with 14K gold nib ca. 1929-30 filled with Noodler’s Benenke Black ink, Kuretake #13 brush pen with Platinum Carbon Black ink, Pentel EnerGel 0.7 Black ink pen, and Molotow 2mm empty pump marker with Dr. Ph. Martin’s Pen White ink. Image is 8×5 inches (20.5×13 cm).

Jim