Gray Colored Sparrow
I had to look this one up using the Merlin app and my photo. There are so many types of sparrows. This is my fourth in what is becoming a series.
Category: Ink
Golden Sparrows
I’m celebrating sparrows in this series of drawings. Here are two sweeties perched on the last hurrah of a sunflower.
I’m using up a block of Arches hot press watercolor paper, which works beautifully with ink and fountain pens.
I start by creating a moody background with some de Atramentis ink, mixed and watered down a little. I brush it onto a wet surface. After it dries, I put in my pencil sketch.
I then start inking with my trusty fountain pens. Lately, I’ve been using far more hatching and cross-hatching, but I also do some scribbling and fill in shadows with a brush.
Snowy Junco
When I took this picture, this little sparrow was perched on this branch on a warm autumn day, but I imagined some snow and there you go.
Brown Ink, Blue Highlights
I swapped black ink for brown in my Majohn Q1 fountain pen, and I think I love it. I can get more of a complimentary effect when using only two colors if I steer away from black.
