11″x15″, Ballograf black ballpoint pen and colored pencil on Rives paper
My goal with this one was to draw it freehand without using a grid. I don’t think it turned out as nicely as I had hoped when I started, but that’s the way it goes!
This was drawn from a photo my husband took of an antique store.
10″ x 14″, ink and colored pencil on Khadi handmade watercolor paper
I don’t know what to think about this one. It started as a drawing using brown ink, but it seemed too strong so I put in a background wash using a combination of blue and brown inks, which left a strange pink hue. Although I kept going with brown ink, I realized that I needed more color and swapped to a wide range of colored pencils in blues, browns, yellows, and greens. I think I could have kept going with this but simply stopped at this point.
This picture came from a series I took of a Blue Heron. I ended up stitching an embroidery of this same bird.
I think the circle design element takes away from the rest of this drawing.