Sunday 29 November 2020

Drawing and Painting the Landscape – Wash Media

 

The Severn Estuary from Selsley Common
Wash Media - Drawing and Painting the Landscape

Indian Ink on Paper
16.5cm x 13.5cm (6.5" x 5.25")

Lesson 18 ("Wash Media") is the last lesson in the chapter about “Tonal Drawing” in Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler. In this lesson, Philip discusses a variety of inks and alternative media that can be used for drawing lines and applied as washes.

Coastguard Cottages - Worth Matravars
Wash Media - Drawing and Painting the Landscape
Indian Ink on Paper
18.5cm x 13.5cm (7.25" x 5.5")

The sketches on this post are all drawn with Indian ink which is waterproof when dry – this allows layers of tone to be applied over a line drawing without disturbing it.

Knowlton Church
Wash Media - Drawing and Painting the Landscape

Indian Ink on Paper
18.5cm x 14.5cm (7.25" x 5.75")

The scenes are from atmospheric places. The Coastguard Cottages are on St. Aldhelm's Head in Dorset. Knowlton Church is the ruin of a Norman church built in the centre of a Neolithic earthwork. The view from Selsley Common across the Severn Estuary to Wales took me by surprise when I first encountered it. Elaine, Doris and I were on the common earlier today. It was swathed in mist and we didn't see this view - we couldn't even see the landmarks on the common until we stood next to them.

Sunday 15 November 2020

Soil

Oak Trees in February
Watercolour & ink
Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook
16cm x 21cm (6.25" x 8.25")

Soil is the first topic in Earth Textures - Chapter 5 of Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice.

The soil isn’t the star of this picture, but is an important supporting player. The trees are one of the subjects I've drawn the most (apart from Elaine) and they’ve appeared in a number of previous posts:

I struggled to think of an inspiring image of soil. In retrospect, I should have drawn a close up of a piece of garden – something like Albrecht Dürer’s Great Piece of Turf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Piece_of_Turf).