14 July 2012

Sketching from photos, some owls

Hello! The wet weather in the UK has kept me indoors, so no sketching out and about this week. I decided instead to work from some of the photos I took when I visited the Raptor Foundation a couple of weeks back.

 

 
 
These are all ink and watercolour - Faber Castell Pitt pens, straight in with the ink, no pencil drawing, just experimenting and building my confidence really. These have turned out better than I hoped, so, with confidence suitably boosted, I'm going to get the watercolour paper out and have a go... (trying to do watercolour washes on sketchbook paper is so frustrating!)

8 comments:

  1. You did a great job with the pen and watercolour, these studies are great.(I know what you mean about watercolours onto sketchbooks!).

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  2. You have fabulous drawing skills. Beautiful work.

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    1. Thank you Laura, and welcome to my blog :-) I'm planning on lots more owls, they really are fabulous birds.

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  3. oh I love owls - these are all great

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    1. Thanks Sharon! Watch this space, I'll be doing more owls I reckon...

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  4. Great artwork, Sharon and I love the Pen and Wash! :)

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    1. Thanks Ingrid, and welcome to my blog :-) Pen and wash is my fave, love the lively feel you can get.

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