Fluffy Clouds



Acrylic on 8"* 11" Hardboard panel.

New book.

Watercolor on Brustro watercolor paper 5"*7"

I bought a new book ' The water-colourist's essential notebook - landscapes' by Gordon Mackenzie. Its a good book for anybody interested in watercolour and watercolour landscapes in particular. My first practice attempt from the book.

Sketches

Hurray,...We finally have a broadband connection at our place. Its been more than 10 months, since our shift to this house but were not able to find a broadband provider. We moved to a relatively new locality of our city. Just a couple of days before the shift, we realized that BSNL is not providing any phone or internet connection to our new apartment.  More cables required, overload etc etc were the reasons given.... one year since and still no cables.
Hopefully now this neglected blog of mine will see more action.

Violet .... or is it purple

Colour theory says blue mixed with red gives violet. Not so simple... two weeks of mixing and tweaking and more mixing and this is what I have.

Acrylic on canvas panel 4"*6"

Browns

An exercise in browns.

Acrylics on canvas panel. 4"*6".

Sketching

The last few months have been very, very busy here.... too many things going on ..... leaving no time for painting or blogging.

watercolours, acrylics and micron pens on hand made paper.

But my little sketch book has kept me company all through and so have my new Sakura micron pens.  Sharing a few sketches here.

watercolours, microns on hand made paper



micron pens on hand made paper.

 

Monarch butterfly

8"*10" Acrylic on Canvas Panel

More butterflies. Had a lot of fun mixing different blacks for this painting. Instead of using the color black right out of the tube I try mixing my own, every time I paint. This exercise in mixing colors has been a rewarding one, am getting better..

Back with butterflies.




8"*10".Acrylics on Canvas panel.

Have been away for a long time now. My son who is nine months old has been keeping me busy. Hope fully should be able to paint more often now.

The photo does not show the background colours accurately. Will try and post a more accurate picture soon.

Scenic Tuscan

Graphite on 180gsm Paper, 10"*6'"

Practicing clouds. Diane Wright, whom I have mentioned before has excellent tutorials on her website. I keep going back to her blog and website for inspiration and tips.
Following Diane's tutorial on clouds, I crosshatched the sky area with a F .5mm mechanical pencil. After blending the whole area with a paper towel, I sculpt the clouds with a plastic eraser. I keep working on the clouds erasing and darkening till I am satisfied with the results.
For the rest of the picture I have used  .5mm mechanical pencils with a 2B lead for the darkest tones, F, 2H and 4H for the lighter tones.

Iron Chain Completed

Charcoal, carbon and graphite pencil on Vellum Bristol. 10"*6"

Tried so many different techniques in this one piece alone. The idea was to to get a realistic rusted iron chain texture. What worked eventually was, for the shadowed regions of the drawing, stippling with carbon pencil first and then with a hard charcoal pencil. Then a light blending with a brush. 

For the bright sun lite parts of the chain, a series of reverse burnishing, starting with 7H then 4H and finally 2H to get the rough texture. The white of the paper were preserved by stippling with a empty ballpoint pen before hand.