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Friday, June 22, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
The lion king
I enjoyed a bit of brush and ink experimentation the other day and from this emerged the very solemn “lion King” – half man half lion and dedicated ruler of his land. Also emerging was his evil brother, the more human looking of the two but certainly less fair and kind. He secretly wants the lion kings realm as his own…
A kind of restlessness has fallen over the kingdom and the animals are unsettled!
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Illustration Friday - Hurry
Hurry - crack open the sketchbook, my new inktense have arrived.
Apologies to any "boxer dog" owners, I know they are really very sweet, this one is just having a bad day, I think he is being tormented by the scraggy cat on the page.
Re Ink tense... I thought I would be able to just pick them up and go but I find them a little harder to use than I anticipated, it is very easy to make colour too intense and I find in my sketch book paper texture shows through in a less than pleasing way (whilst I love it with other mediums I use). I certainly need lots more practice and I think I will find them a great adjunct to other forms of painting, like using water colours and adding highlights and special bits with these much like I do with my water colour, oil pastel and pastel chalk pencils.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them, just can’t drive them as well as I would like to yet! :-)
I also bought myself an aqua brush, just because everyone who is anyone seems to have one darling… and I’m getting used to that too.
Its great fun experimenting.
I bought some new Inktense pencils so I so have been having a bit of fun sketching with them, just playing with htumbnails in my sketchbook to get a feel for them. This is a little medley of items from my sketchbook.
Apologies to any "boxer dog" owners, I know they are really very sweet, this one is just having a bad day, I think he is being tormented by the scraggy cat on the page.
Re Ink tense... I thought I would be able to just pick them up and go but I find them a little harder to use than I anticipated, it is very easy to make colour too intense and I find in my sketch book paper texture shows through in a less than pleasing way (whilst I love it with other mediums I use). I certainly need lots more practice and I think I will find them a great adjunct to other forms of painting, like using water colours and adding highlights and special bits with these much like I do with my water colour, oil pastel and pastel chalk pencils.
Don’t get me wrong, I love them, just can’t drive them as well as I would like to yet! :-)
I also bought myself an aqua brush, just because everyone who is anyone seems to have one darling… and I’m getting used to that too.
Its great fun experimenting.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Exciting news
Hooray! We had some lovely news this week with the safe arrival of our little nephew. This little sketch is just for him!
All images are © Janet Trotta 2012
All images are © Janet Trotta 2012
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