Digital Alan

Line And Color - Posted an interesting article about where I got inspired to start drawing.

I really fell in love with the style of Russell Stulter and his use of Fountain Pens and adding a color wash to the images to really bring them to life. (see below)
As one of the comments states just sketching with watercolor you don’t have the control and precision to accomplish what Russell accomplishes when he uses both Pen and a waterbrush to give a wash of watercolor over the completed drawing. I feel this gives so much more depth and feeling to the drawing.

Make sure to check out Russell’s Site to see his sketchbook. And check out the Forum where you can join in share your drawing and sketches and talk about art in general, Learn a few new techniques or talk about new tools to use.

Below is a sample of what you can find in the sketchbooks of Russell Stulter.

Tags: Watercolor, Sketch, Sketching, Drawing, Ink, Fountain, Pen, FountainPen

Well, I don’t have a normal container for sugar - But as I was getting my coffee this morning - I grabbed a few sugar containers and threw them on my desk - and the lightbulb almost hit me in the head - Ah Ha - Here is my container for sugar - Sugar Packages - I use Splenda Sugar for my Coffee and So here is my Sketch of the packs I threw on my desk.

This was drawing with my Lamy Safari - Extra Fine Fountain Pen with Noodlers Black Ink and then I did a light wash of colors over the image after the ink dried. I believe I went a tad heavy on the color - I wanted it much lighter. Oh well - Learn from your mistakes right?

Tags: Drawing, Sugar, Splenda 

Someone wrote me and asked me what this “Scavenger Hunt” that I am doing.

Well, I should have explained this earlier but I have been trying to practice my Sketching and Drawing - and joined the Group on Plein Aire Group at WetCanvas.

Here is the message explaining Scanenger Hunt #13

This runs pretty much weekly - #13 Runs from Oct 8 thru Oct 16th.

The Drawing for this week are:

01) Draw a Seed Pod
02) Draw a Twig
03) Draw a Marble, or Ball, Or String of Beads
04) Draw a Striped peice of fabric
05) Draw a Game Piece
06) Draw Part of a Game Board
07) Draw a Tessellating Pattern (Which is… Examples)
08) Draw a Clear (see-thru) object
09) Draw a Ribbon or String
10) Draw a Pins or Nails (Used for Attaching Wood)
11) Draw a Table Leg
12) Draw a Whole Tree
13) Draw a Button or Buttons
14) Draw Part of a Map
15) Draw A Mushroom, Fungus or Moss
16) Draw Somthing that deals with a Hobby (Other than art)
17) Draw a Pipe or a tube
18) Draw a Buckle
19) Draw a Paperclip or PaperClamp (Bulldog)
20) Draw a candy (sweets)
21) Draw Picture or Mirror Frame Or Part of one
22) Draw Stairs or a Step Ladder
23) Draw a Mountain Peak / Hill / Raised Piece of Land
24) Draw the Bark of a Tree
25) Draw a Lightfitting on a vehicle (Ex Headlamp, turn signals)
26) Draw Your container for Sweets, Jams, Jellies, Sugar

That is the Whole List for this weeks Wet Canvas Scavenger Hunt - Good Hunting….

Tags: WetCanvas, Wet, Canvas, Drawing, Sketching, Painting, WaterColors

Sketch #1: A Pipe -

Even though I think they might have ment a plumbing pipe - This will fill the subject. I used a Pilot Precise V5 Pen with Black Ink to do the outline and I then used the PrismaColor to add the color to this image. I have had the colors for about 1 year and have not used them much - I mostly have done just blackand white. By creating sketches with the wetbrush - I noticed the color just added so much to the image.

I just found Wet Canvas and this week I partook of the Scavanger Hunt #12.

Here are the Sketches I completed.

These are my Entries to the WetCanvas Drawing Scavenger Hunt

1) Drawing of A Small Bag
2) Drawing of Your Hand Drawing
3) Drawing of a Map (Well I use Google for my Maps)

4) Drawing of Something Olde Over 100 Years
5) Drawing of Dying Plant or Flower
6) Drawing of Something Floating on Water

7) Drawing of a feather (Feathers on Darts)
8) Drawing of Something Blowing in the wind
9) Drawing of Something Burning AND
Drawing of Something Starting with C (Cigar)

10) Drawing of Crumpled up Paper
11) Drawing of Someone Sitting
12) Drawing of Something with Strong Shadows

13) Drawing of Symentry Cylindrical (Pepsi Can)
14) Drawing of a Wheel (Mouse Wheel)

All Drawing were done with a .5mm mechnical pencil and 3.5mm Clutch Pencil from Levengers except for the Pepsi Can - That was “Sketched” with a new Kon-I-Nor Watercolor Set and a Water Pen and a Koi Water Sketch Kit.