Scar Top (Rotring BB Art Pen, watercolour, in 21 x 25 cm sketchbook)
Every day on my way down to breakfast, I'd look out of the rear window and up to the empty farmhouse on top of the hill. I knew I wanted to draw it and on Wednesday afternoon I sat out on the terrace at the back of the house and made this drawing.
As soon as I sat down on my stool I realised the view was better from inside the house because of the slightly lower viewpoint, but I'd made up my mind to do the drawing from the terrace. As a result, rather than do a portrait-shaped drawing, I opted for this landscape one. The black trees against the sky turned out to be something of a nightmare, but a wash over the soluble ink of the Art Pen proved to be the solution.
This turned out to be the last drawing I did at The Rookery. Thursday's walk along the far side of the beck, where I'd hoped to find some new material, ended when I met two of the others coming back, having been chased away by a sheepdog.
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I really like your Rotring art pen sketches. Can you still get the cartridges for these - or is it only the sepia which seems to have disappeared? My only problem is that I seem to get more ink on my hands than the page!
Sonia
I see that Ken Bromley Art Supplies still has both black and sepia cartridges for sale (on offer at the moment for £1.20 for 6)
Thanks Harry.
I'd love to see this as a water colour without the pen. I love the colours.
Hmm. The pen drawing came first. I don't really do watercolours and I'm not sure this would stand up without the structure of the pen lines.
The colours seduced me, which is why I thought it would look good as a water colour only.
Our art teacher beat us all over the head if we outlined anything - but I suppose it's different if you colour in an ink drawing.
Your art teacher was clearly unfamiliar with, or perhaps unappreciative of much of the work of the Post Impressionists.
I regard this drawing as ink and wash.
This is absolutely stunning. I love it!
Thanks, Deborah.
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