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| 11/11/14 Platinum Carbon ink, watercolor, Zig marker, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
We are having a cold (though not as cold as it is for my Midwest relatives . . . brrrr!) but
beautifully sunny streak of weather this week! On my way home from a meeting in
Shoreline, I drove around looking for a sketch I could do from my car. I didn’t
have to go very far to find this maple – once huge and glorious, now
bifurcated. Just as I was wishing I had a car or some other object nearby for
scale, a teenager came out of the house and started raking. The poor kid has a
big chore ahead – that maple had dropped a lot of leaves.
After I finished the color version, I got out my Kuretake
brush pen and gray ink in a waterbrush to make the monochromatic version for the
5-Day Black & White Challenge. I
used to think the brush pen was clumsy and difficult to control, but compared
to a twig, it’s a piece o’ cake!
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| 11/11/14 Kuretake brush pen, Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-syogun ink |
Both are great sketches! It is fun to see the contrast between the color version and b&w. I guess the kid needed a break by the time you were doing the second one. lol
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