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Beginning, Middle, or End?

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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.

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July Slump

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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

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Pine using Ballpoint Pen

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10″ x 14″, ballpoint ink on Khadi watercolor paper

I completed a small pencil sketch of this same scene a few months ago, and I kept it in the back of my mind that I’d like to do a larger piece. So, I did. Although I really like using a simple ballpoint pen, I have some concerns about the ink fading, absorbing into the paper, or containing strange, acidic ingredients. I’ll probably call it a fad and return to fountain pens, but it was awfully nice to create such a nice, inky-dark drawing with one simple tool. Well, I also used a water brush to lightly dilute some of the ink, which was mildly water soluble. I like that little bit of shading it creates.

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