Traditional and digital art
Today I’m practicing sketching with tempera paint sticks and colored brush markers on paper.
9×12 inches (23×30.5 cm) Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media paper, pencil, Mod Paint Sticks, Arteza Real Brush pens, Arteza flat waterbrush, and Molotow empty marker filled with Dr. Ph. Martin’s Pen White ink. Each picture is about 4×5.5 inches (10×14 cm).
Jim
A couple of weeks back I bought a bottle of Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay Sepia India ink to try. It can only be used in a dip pen. So, I also bought a bamboo pen. I have on hand other brown inks including Diamine Dark Brown, which I used to start this drawing using my new bamboo pen. I had used the Bombay Sepia on an earlier sketch, but it didn’t flow well and I wanted to compare it to something else.
I love working with charcoal. I did this small sketch to test a couple of techniques.
1. If you score the paper with a sharp object before adding the charcoal and then smear it, the scored lines remain white, and 2. If you score after applying charcoal and then smear it, the scored lines remain dark.
Materials: Canson 7×10 inch Mix Media paper, vine charcoal, and white gel pen.
This is an ink drawing done with three inks in three pens. I drew this freehand from a personal photo starting with the brown ink. I then added grey and a touch of black. The foreground was done by blending the drawn ink with water and a brush. I applied the brown first and then layered the shadow building up from a light grey to the darker tones.
This is the first charcoal drawing I’ve done since college many years ago. I still had some soft vine charcoal from an art class I took at Berkeley. This was drawn on Canson watercolor paper. The image is 7×10 inches. I worked on it in two sittings, one yesterday and the other the day before. I looked at a very fuzzy photo I took several years ago while traveling on the train between Oregon and California. Here is a picture of my setup.
Birches
Jim
iPad painting
Lately I’ve been painting on the iPad. I did this one in iColorama. I then opened the images in Pixlrama and changed the color balance and added a bit of texture. Finally I used Photogene to alter the sharpness and contrast.
Flowers and Pumpkins
I painted this one in the studio from a personal photo taken in the Oregon Gardens in Silverton. I was surprised by all the flowers still in bloom this late in the Fall.
Holbein Acryla Gouache on Aquarelle Arches Hot Press Watercolor block. 5 x 7 inches (12.5 x 17.7 cm).
I drove Kris to an appointment at the Casey Eye Institute in Portland and did this sketch in the lobby while waiting. I used a General Sketch & Wash watersoluble graphite pencil and a little bit of Daniel Smith watercolor.
Front Yard Sketch
We had a bit of sun yesterday (and today). It felt good to sit on the front porch, read a book, and sketch on my iPod Touch. Just trying to capture some of the colors and shapes in front of me. Later, after I went inside, I transferred the sketch to my iPad and added some detail.
iPod Touch, Brushes, iPad, Procreate.
Jim