Holiday Sketching
A few of the holiday days were spent outside in cold damp conditions getting away from the dead days around Christmas and beyond. Still infatuated with the Pental Colour Brush Pen for drawing. Compared to dip pens and fineliners it forces me to be bolder, work quickly and create design choices within the mark making. 22 December - Calder Wetlands , just across the road from me. Needed to get out in the open air and draw. Something I feel like I haven't done on purpose for awhile. Found a small wooded area and then found a smaller path off that down by the lakeside. The drawing comes second at times like these while bird calls become clearer and meaningful. Started out fairly warm and confident but after 25 minutes stood still I was ready to move on. I finished the drawing off at home applying watercolour and white paint. The colours are expressionistic as I don't have the skills to watercolour a realistic painterly rendering over my bold mark making. That's not the aim of...
