Graphitint + Ink
I started using my fountain pen with black ink to add some line work to this sketchbook. In some cases, I gave up on adding any color at all, preferring the dramatic effect that ink brings to white paper.
Tag: ink
Common Grackle
Probably best described as multimedia, I started with an Artist Bord by Ampersand and covered it with a coat of Golden Silverpoint Drawing Ground. My first thought was to use metalpoint, but after sketching in the birds on both, I switched to colored pencil. I used some blue ink for the backgrounds, and on the larger piece, I used an aluminum scrubber pad to place some blurry tree branches and a border.
Oo-ka-lee!
Red-winged blackbirds are back and singing like crazy.
I snapped about a dozen pictures of this guy way up into the treetops. I cropped the three picture I liked the best that showed a progression and then simplified them when I sketched them first in pencil, then in ink.
Fifteen Years Blogging
How many can claim a fifteen-year old blog? Happy anniversary to this little corner of the web where I’ve documented all the arts and crafts I’ve obsessed about since 2006. Even with that strong blogging habit, at some point over the past year I slowed down on blog posts and increased Instagram posts. Instagram is easy and popular, and it’s all too easy to forget about writing. Recently, I decided I missed keeping up this ancient blog and it needed an update—and perhaps Instagram needs to go away. Long story short, you cannot control reels on your feed, and I found many objectionable.
So, here’s an update on the ol’ blog. I’ve not been as artsy lately, but I’ve still managed several sketchbook sketches…
I also sketched this large landscape using Derivan Liquid Pencil tinted with blue and yellow.
A quick pen and ink landscape…
And a still life on Pastelmat.
Here’s the question: Will this little blog still be here in another fifteen years?