Underlying the watercolors is an ink sketch of some thick pine bark. I overlaid the outline of a lady slipper flower formation on the bark to create a complex of textures. The water soluble black ink ran when I applied the watercolors (which accounts for some of the muddiness in the piece). All things considered, […]
I began this sketch by inking the texture of palm tree bark, with a water-soluble ink pen. Within the areas defined by the edges of the bark, I applied watercolors. It reminds me a bit of an ant farm or other structure with separate chambers. The watercolor unifies the composition. Please visit my Etsy shop […]
I began this piece water-soluble ink, sketching the woody islands of a particularly craggy bark from a young tree. After flicking water on it from an old tooth brush, the inky lines darkened and some ran down the paper. I used the outlines of the texture units to contain the colors. The end result reminds […]
I’m trying to change my color palette from the previous series, which was on the cooler side, consisting of greens, blues and earth tones. Today I used four different textures to underpin the watercolors. The horseweed plants are distinguishable but the others (chain links of a fence, spines of a cactus and gnarly bark of […]
I overlapped my pen and ink renderings of Ricinus leaves and Yellow Bell flowers in this design just as I did in yesterday’s post. It is easier to distinguish between the leaves and the flowers in this drawing. The center vein of the leaves divided the sun from the shadow, so I used green and […]
Today I began with a pen and ink sketch of a photo of green leaves and overlaid it with another ink sketch of tree bark. I’m not sure where the thought came from, but the next step was to make blue watercolor drip traces from the top of the image. This echoed nicely with the […]
