Michael

 

Sktchy - Watercolour

Blue

 

Sktchy - painted using two hues of blue

Rick N

 

Sketched with Touchfive markers in warm grey for the portrait and blue grey for the gun barrels

Dark Brown

Another from the Sktchy app.

 

Sketched using a Dark Brown coloured pencil.

The watercolour paper resists because of it's slight texture and leaves a grain if you just glide your pencil across it softly...I quite like that!

Tuesday Night Values

The nights are drawing in here in the UK. I drop my Son at a boxing club at 7pm on Tuesdays and usually drive somewhere to sit and sketch until it gets dusk at around 8pm then walk my dog until I collect him again at 8:30pm.

This week, however, it was barely 7:30pm when I finished my pen sketch and realized the light had fled. So I painted what I could see...Values! 

Grief in Red

 

Going through my art getting some work together for a new venue when I came across this piece.

Don't think I ever posted it here, it's from a few years back.

Amy

 

My latest Daler Rowney Ebony is not responding the way I am used to. The paper is super absorbant and reacting more like tissue paper. This has never happened before, I've been using these sketchbooks for ages. It feels different too, to touch, thinner.

I am gutted!

I love these books for many reasons and get through quite a lot of them in a year and generally order in batches to avoid big postage costs. Obviously, I am now worried about ordering a batch incase it's something new they have done with the paper that now doesn't suit my pen and wash activities.

So...

 

I got in touch with Daler Rowney on messenger on 8th June and they put me in touch with their paper lab. I explained everything to Donna Richards who said she would look into it.

I was a little surprised she didn't offer to send me out another book to experiment on, the ebony are very reasonably priced and £5 would surely be a small price for DR to pay in order to keep a customer who orders at least 15 of these a year!

 

I rang Donna a few weeks ago and was told she was looking into it.

I rang Donna again this morning and no one was in the office

(Yes, you are quite right, she hasn't been in touch with me once since I originally spoke to her on the 9th June)

 

So, it would seem I need to find a different journal to work my daily sketches into.

 

I cannot understand bad customer service

Emotional Release

 

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying -

Dorothy Parker

Plein Air Watercolour Studies

15-11-10
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Waiting for Harrys school bus to arrive

Daniel Smiths Raw Umber Violet watercolour studies in daily journal

I got really sloppy and soaked the study on the right, the paper buckled but the surface stayed in tact and it did not bleed through to the back...Pretty impressive! The book was closed when dry (which was quite some time) and left on my studio desk overnight. The paper is now quite flat again...I did not put weight on top of it either.

These DR Ebony books take ALOT of abuse!

Arthouse Sketchbook Project

SBP-3a-smll
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

I decided to add a little tone to this spread for the Arthouse Sketchbook Project...Glad I did now!

Daily Journal Entry

14-07-10
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Ink and Watercolour in Sketchbook

Jerry Waese for JKPP

JerryWaese-JKPP
Originally uploaded by Anita Davies

Another quick portrait created with Copic markers in my Moleskine watercolour Folio sketchbook....not the best paper choice for markers, too absorbant really...Still, that's what this party is all about for me...Experimentation!
Not done much with markers yet the lighter tones in my 5 pack are already drying out!!! Grrrr!
Any tips to revive them?

Sketching On Canvas

My Parents House - Acrylic ink on canvas - Plein Air

...With a dip pen and acrylic inks, I then used a brush to add tonal washes.
The ink is black and white so I have no idea why the hedge is showing as blue?

Cat Amongst The Pigeons Exhibition

'Beaters' - Acrylic on canvas 6"x16" each

This is the pair I whipped up for the exhibition at Haddenham gallery, based on beaters at a pheasant shoot. The exhibition will include works with either cats or birds as a subject from various artists and I felt that depicting them in a sporting scene would bring something different to the mix.

Another Montmartre Sketch

A quickie from a photograph I took back in 2003.

Crop Rotation

A rough sketch of a painting I had in mind a few evenings ago.

Montmartre

In 2003 I spent a long weekend in Paris for my birthday, my first.

I also began my art adventure in 2003 and, since it was all new to me, I did not think to take a sketchbook or very many photographs...Boy do I regret that now!

I loved Monmartre and could have easily passed away many hours sat outside one of the cafes watching the artists at work...coffee and art, who could wish for more than that?

I sketched this from one of the few photos I did manage to take and, after making a few alterations in my head, am currently working it up onto canvas using acrylic interactives...More on this one soon.

Copic People Sketches

Harry from life - 10 mins


Jake from life - 5 mins



Pausa coffee shop on location

Pausa coffee shop on location

Sketched from a Mitch Waite DVD, still frame

Sketched from a magazine - 5 mins


I have had a tonal set of 5 grey Copic Ciao markers for a couple of years now and never really used them. I recently started making thumbnail sketches with them and quickly realised their potential as a very handy location media. I have found that creating tonal thumbnails for prospective paintings with these pens allows me to see quite quickly if the painting will work, compositionally and tonally. Colour notes can be made in writing or left to my interpretation back in the studio.

Being a huge monochrome fan, I've become rather addicted to them.

They are so easy to stick in a handbag and 4 pens can be held in one hand comfortably while working with the 5th.
Finding a sketchbook that will take them, however, has been a bit of a problem...They bleed through to the back of the page, especially the black. So far, the best books I have tested are the Derwent Floral, which has paper rather like a Moleskine only a little thicker, and the Canson watercolour sketchbook .

Rooftops and Pumpkins

Hands Of Time

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