I have also been looking at a book I bought last year titled Arthur Rackham: A Life With Illustration by James Hamilton. It is such a beautiful book. I have been inspired by his pen and ink and watercolour work. Rackham somehow managed to combine the thinness and thickness of lines with subtle colour perfectly. I have been looking at animals also this week, so I think the below work of his ties in quite nicely.
So, inspired by Rackham, I thought I would start trying my hand at pen and ink and water colour this week. Ha, now I appreciate Rackham even more! I am getting a better hang of varying the thickness of my lines and have started putting a bit of water colour in, but I need to be more patient than I usually am. I think I also have to leave the ink longer to dry as well, overnight didn't seem to be long enough. I also played around a bit with some of the filters on Adobe Photoshop this afternoon, so this is what I have so far.
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| Yass: horses |
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| Yass: horses (conte crayon filter) |
4 comments:
Nice looking horses. I was just thinking: I wonder how long it would take to paint all of the cattle in Nebraska. And then I got tired just thinking about that!
Mmm, 6 million cattle wasn't it?! No wonder you get tired just thinking about it ;)
Thanks for making two parts of my anatomy soooo big! Can I have a bigger photo of my lovely Mr Maloney?
What, you mean the sunglasses?! ;o) To be honest, I cheated a bit because I was trying out different compositions so in actual fact your anatomy is traced directly off a photo, so no amplification on my part was undertaken! Assume you want the original photo of Mr Maloney - will email you.
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