Outlines worked using an Umber Letraset Promarker with an ultra-fine tip. Colours applied using watercolours, watercolour pencils and metallic paints.
Approx. A4 in size.
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Approx. 16cm x 16 cm. Rotring pen on white paper.
Just playing around here…thought I’d try this idea out. Not happy with the overspills into the white space of the P.
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6″ x 8″ (15cm x 20cm). Sharpie and rotring pens, Caran d’Ache watersoluble pencils with water wash and metallic paints and inks on heavy cartridge paper.
The colouring has taken most of yesterday and another 3 hours today and it’s now done.
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Approx. 15cm x 20cm (6″ x 8″). Rotring Rapidograph pens on cartridge paper with watercolours, metallic inks and paints applied. It’s rather sparkly/glittery … which the camera doesn’t really pick up.
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Approx. 15cm x 20cm (6″ x 8″). Rotring Rapidograph pens on cartridge paper.
Done in response to a friend’s request to do one based round mechanical things … not sure it works at all.
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Approx. 15cm x 20cm (6″ x 8″). Rotring Rapidograph pen on white cartridge paper.
8″x 6″. Rotring Rapidograph pen and black ink on heavy cartridge paper.
I’m not quite sure yet what I’m going to do with this outline – colour or not to colour, texture or not to texture.
Last night I had friends visiting and a look for the drawing that I did when visiting Tewkesbury Abbey a couple of years ago led they and I to looking through some of my old sketchbooks. Suddenly, seeing all that had inspired me in the past, showed where my ‘visual vocabulary’ for my abstract art ‘doodles’ has come from. Prehistoric art, Romanesque and Gothic architecture and sculpture, La Tene art, ammonites and other fossils, microscopic formanifera, microscopic images of cells, stained glass windows, insects, shells, flowers, ‘Celtic’ manuscripts and Anglo-Saxon art to name but a few. I’d also picked up a copy of the BBC’s History magazine whilst out shopping as it had images of Anglo-Saxon artefacts which reminded me of patterns I use in my art. Yesterday seems to have been a day of making links between all the work I’ve done in the past and how it flows out of me now, and a reminder of the things that inspire me as well as giving me a sense of validation with the way that I create art.
I think subtle colours for this one, with textures added in places, and just the hints of metallic highlights perhaps – after all, my inner raven demands the sparkle!
Art is the Adventure 