Showing posts with label Seawhite of Brighton 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seawhite of Brighton 1. Show all posts
04/12/2010
03/12/2010
Snowy landscape
The country has come to a standstill with the snow and ice, but round here, it's quiet and beautiful. (The first drawing's got a blot from the previous page). Mistaken documentation: I did these yesterday as the sun was setting, but when I was dating them this morning, put in today's date...
Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
02/12/2010
Not Japan
Hmmm. I went out with my two Pentel aquabrushes (a brilliant invention), one filled (messily) with a glug of Indian ink, the other with a wash of brown ink. I wanted to capture the big trees that frame the entrance to the enormous meadows where I walk Kato-dog every day, and where the light and sky and landscape change with the seasons. The drawing looks like I hopped over to Japan for the day, but the process might be too messy for me to turn into a habit.
Indian ink and wash in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
01/12/2010
30/11/2010
29/11/2010
Another one
This one's the view from my upstairs window this afternoon.
Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
Dog in snow, sheep in snow, snowy landscape
The weather has been pretty extreme for this time of year. I'm not very good at evoking the snow - the whiteness presents itself as negative shapes, gaps between lovely areas of spikey darkness that I've tried to capture by the quick jots of trees and little track marks on the ground, or clumps of earth showing through. I think working with the calligraphy brush on the Ninja Scroll drawings the other day has had some sort of liberating effect on the way I'm using watercolour. Kato was like a hot dog in his coat, but that didn't cramp his exploratory style. The sheep were rastas in their natural coats. I fell and hurt my wrist, so this is hard to type... but it doesn't hurt to draw.
Brush markers in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
28/11/2010
English gentleman in the snow
Togged out in his Barbour, Kato is a proper English country gentleman.
Cold snap
I came home a day earlier than planned from London because there was Weather. Walking Kato today, there were beautiful views ahead, and underfoot.
Brush markers and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
24/10/2010
22/10/2010
Traces: early morning
I've left in a bit of the following page in the scan, used to take down notes yesterday, as this was the first notebook to hand.
Brush markers and watercolours in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
21/10/2010
20/10/2010
19/10/2010
Autumnal forest floor
The forest floor is full of mossy smelling tangles of leaves through which vividly coloured Baroque-curly mushrooms amazingly erupt.
Ink pen, brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
18/10/2010
16/10/2010
14/10/2010
03/10/2010
02/10/2010
Death underfoot
My daily walk with Kato takes me through the most beautiful field - big sky, rolling landscape - through which a Roman road cuts. The sheep's head is still there, and much of the flesh has now been whittled away.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
01/10/2010
All lost
The weather has been relentlessly melancholy, good for holing up at home, drawing from photographs taken a few years ago.
Brush marker and watercolour in Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook.
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