Polished Silver

Silver Necklace
Ink and Watercolour
Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook
14.0 x 20.3cm cm (5.5" x 8.0")

Polished Silver is the first topic in Metallic Impressions - Chapter 4 of  Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice.

This is one of Elaine's necklaces. The shapes in it are inspired by the carved masonry at Southwell Minster. It is one of the most complicated things I've drawn in a long time. In some places you can see the ghostly outline of a second necklace.  These are my original pencil lines before I adjusted the drawing to improve the accuracy.  The painting doesn't really convey the appearance of polished silver. In retrospect, I should have used paler washes - something to remember for next time.