At the life sessions I decided to try and create form using warm and cool colours. This was my first attempt and I was quite happy with the result. Certainly happy enough to have another go the next week (last Wednesday) particularly, after having seen a programme on the Scottish Colourists.
My main problem is reverting back to tonality to define structure, rather than my aim of using colour.
Still, I was happy with the punchy qualities of these pieces and will probably develop them. This wont be the case with my ink drawing using a dropper, which I trialled at the same sessions. I have used a dropper loaded with acrylic ink for abstract painting in the past and found the results interesting. Interesting enough to apply it to a number of paintings.
However, trying to define subtle details with a dropper loaded with acrylic ink certainly eluded me.
These are quick sketches of the two models above, done without measurement and certainly, without comparison and correction.
I do like working with ink as it makes you consider your mark making - no going back, or correcting. The dropper though, deposited a lot of ink and using the residual for shading, I ended up in a mess.
In the past I used an italic nib and that did allow for extending the wet line for shading with a brush, without flooding the subject and losing control. I might go back to the nib in future as I do like the total commitment of ink.
But I'll be dropping the dropper.
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