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| 5/12/15 India ink wash, Zebra Comic G dip pen, Fabriano 140 lb. hot press paper |
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| Original drawing by Rembrandt |
Remember the values lesson I talked about last month when I took the intro to ink drawing
workshop? Yesterday’s class was another reminder of that all-important concept
as we again copied masters, this time with varying dilutions of India ink.
Although it was somewhat of a relief to get away from all
that hatching, halfway through my first exercise (below, copied
from a master whose name I’ve forgotten) I actually found myself missing all
those tiny ink marks. Without the structure of initial lines, painting in shapes
with nothing but ink washes can be almost as tedious. I had a fairly
wide range of brush sizes in my arsenal, but somehow none seemed small enough
for some of the tiny details apparent in the masterwork. But I tried my best to
at least capture the range of values correctly.
The second exercise, a drawing of a lion by Rembrandt (above), was
somewhat easier because we could use both line and wash, taking the best parts
of both hatching and washes.
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| 5/12/15 India ink washes, Strathmore 400 140 lb. cold press paper |
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| Original masterwork |
The washes really give a nice dimension to the sketches! My friend, Mark brings along water brushes with diluted India ink for shading. They come out great!
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