Finished, I Guess
11″ x 15″, Jetstream ballpoint pen on Khadi watercolor paper
Beginning, Middle, or End?
11″ x 15″, Jetstream Uni ballpoint pen (red, blue, black) on Khadi watercolor paper
This one’s different–the weird lighting makes it even more so (the top right isn’t actually yellow). I just wanted to draw some flowers, but I didn’t have any plan at all. Here’s where it sits, and now I wonder what to do. Is it done? It doesn’t really have a focus, the composition is so-so, I don’t know where I was heading with the background. Time for a break.
July Slump
It happens pretty much every year. A few small sketches, maybe, but that’s about it for an entire month. As temperatures rise, my creativity slumps. Even so, I did mange a few ballpoint pen sketches, including this robin.
9″x12″, Uni Jetstream ballpoint pen on Khadi watercolor paper
Song Sparrow
11″ x 15″, Dr. Bombay India Ink on Khadi watercolor paper
I didn’t plan this one out too much, just did a simplified pencil drawing of the Song Sparrow perching on the cup plant based on a photo I had taken. I let it sit for a day as it looks on the right, but in the morning light, I realized I had to do something drastic to get some contrast into it, so I used India ink straight and brushed it around the leaves. It’s now very dramatic and, I think, far more interesting.