Showing posts with label Pen and Ink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pen and Ink. Show all posts

From Pen and Ink to Papaver

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This week, I have been making final alterations to some of my paintings before adding them to my sales site (link above).  To complete this pen and ink trees painting, I have already added more black to the bottom, and may also add a bit more at the right, so that it goes all the way to the right hand side.  I will be re-uploading my site in the next few days and you can see the new paintings and links then.

I also have two new links from that site. One is to Ceriboo, (also known as Ceri) who makes beautiful and unique bags http://www.ceriboo.com/. Based at Banks Mill Studios, Derby, she sells ready-made bags and can carry out commissions. She has an online shop and, for those of you who like to read blogs, she has one attached to her site.

A worthy winner of the “One Lovely Blog” award, Papaver Jewelry is an interesting and colourful blog http://www.papaverjewelry2009.blogspot.com/.

I have also been helping my son assemble and paint his earth and moon kit. He loves all things to do with the galaxies, and immediately homed in this on a recent trip to the National Space Centre at Leicester.   What better way to spend his pocket money?


A quick mention for Tracey Stoddart, and husband and daughter Danielle, who have recently set up “Fairytale Bridal” on Mill Street, Clowne, a wedding and prom dress shop.  They change the window display most days, and the windowsills look beautiful lined with satin with wedding accessories scattered on them.

They are featured on the Derbyshire Times website at: http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/business/wedding_success_1_3378985

Their Face Book page is at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairytale-Bridal/144024308981954?sk=wall – a feast for the eyes.

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No Wildebeast

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Last week, I decided to paint another tree silhouette scene but with a bit more advanced technique for my colour wash, involving a few clouds instead of clear sky. I did this by adding some grey streaks while the background was still wet. See previous recent posts on how to do a colourwash.
This week I have been adding the silhouettes, and also I added an owl and hedgehog to the previous picture – if you look closely, you can see the hedgehog in the grass. If you can’t see it, it’s on the far left …
At art group, most people have finished their pen and ink paintings now, and are back onto their oils or pastels. Madge was doing a grassy prarie with mountains in the background, “And I’m not putting no wildebeast in it”. “I’m not putting none in either”, I said, becoming aware of the grammatical contradiction. Mind you, my trees are from photos taken of Cornwall anyway, and the nearest you’d get to a wildebeest is probably a cow in a field. Maggie has been making some decoupage cards using photos of paintings she has produced herself. Some are for friends and family but she might have some on sale at our Easter exhibition.

I took my 3D drawing book along this week (which was a Christmas present) and began to read it towards the end of the session. It told me to draw some caricatures or cartoons, and I did. Of the group members – so I can’t put them on, or I’ll be in trouble! Next week, l’ll be using the special 3D compasses to try and produce some pictures that way, although if I want to show them at the exhibition, I’ll have to leave the 3D glasses out for people to use, and they might get pinched. Perhaps on second thoughts, I’ll stick to completing my oil painting, now it finally seems to have dried.
Below is a link to a blogger who has recently featured a link to my blog on hers. “Parenting reinvented” is – well - about parenting. It’s an American blog, and many of the articles are aimed at Americans, but the “Angry Birds” shown can be ordered in the UK at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Limited-Angry-Birds-Plush-Toy/dp/B004N7QMZI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1297531788&sr=8-2S
http://parentsreinvented.com/


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Pen and ink - and snuggly knits

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As the weather has stayed cold this week, I have put my snow picture on one side for now, as the paint hasn’t dried yet. Instead, I have done a pen and ink picture, with a coloured background. I’ve now done two pictures like this, with different coloured backgrounds. Here’s the first one: I did a colourwash, then drew in the outline of the trees, and inked them in. To create the wash, I first of all raised the top end of my pad up on some books, to create a slant. I dampened the paper all over with a wet brush, starting at the top, moving it from side to side, and working my way to the bottom. I then put plenty of watercolour on the brush, because it dries lighter (any water-based colour would do), and did the same again, and the colour gradually got paler. At first there were lines where the paint had been, but these blended to create continuous colour as the paint dried. Sometimes you can be left with lines when it dries, and it can take practice to get it right.

While the paper was still wet, I turned the pad around the other way, and did the same thing with another colour, leaving it paler in the middle between the two, as there would be with this kind of sky at sunset or sunrise. I think it is quite effective. I produced another one today using red and yellow, but it isn’t finished yet.

This week, I am featuring a craft blog, from Renate (I don’t know her surname), who lives in Gjorvik in Norway. She is 28 years old, lives with her partner and two cats, works in the eye care industry and studies journalism. She loves to knit and crochet. Her blog is at http://therenate.com/ and is in Norwegian, but has a translate option so can be read in English. She has a knitters forum and a Norwegian forum on the "Blog Frog" site.
I like her “angry birds” and she features some very snugly looking knits that she makes. At art group today, I could have done with some of her lovely warm socks that she made for her mum, although of course, her mum may well live in the more northerly part of Norway where Renate is originally from, which makes me feel a bit of a wimp. Renate can undertake commissions, and has her contact details on her blog.

More observant readers may have noticed I have several new link buttons in the right hand margin.  These were done with the help of this blog: http://pennypinchingpenguin.blogspot.com/.  Although the writer no longer updates this blog, it is full of useful information, and there's a link on there to her new one.



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Last of the Summer Whine

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Autumn has once again arrived in the UK. Tescos have had their Christmas chocolates on display for over a month now and, at the cricket club, the art group have had to move the exhibition stands and other equipment from the outdoor container to the umpire’s room ready for winter. It didn’t take so long this time, so we must be getting better organised as time goes on. We also had the use of a wheelbarrow, and I jokingly asked Karen if she wanted a ride. If she had accepted, at our ages we would almost have looked like a female version of something out of “Last of the Summer Wine”.

Because I had to help move the equipment, I knew I wouldn’t have long to spend on painting. This week, therefore, seemed a good opportunity to do something simple and try out a “dippy” pen I was given for last year’s birthday. Pen and ink is not the most forgiving of media. Once you’ve made a line with ink, you are more or less stuck with it, but on the plus side, it does dry quickly. It seems to lend itself well to depicting buildings, perhaps because it is so precise.

Rufty Tufty first go ...

The nib was rather thick, and perhaps that’s why the ink seemed to run out too quickly for my liking. Once I got bored of it, I changed to a roller ball-type pen I had with me. This worked well, and although I wasn’t particularly pleased with my rough first effort, a second go at home that evening proved much more satisfactory.
...and much slicker finished version

This week, I am hoping to take some of my work to a shop in a nearby town to see if they will accept it for display, so “give me covering fire”, as they used to say in the westerns.


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