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| “First Iris” 6” x 12” pen & ink and watercolor in a Pentalic Nature Sketch book |
I finally got outside for some plein air painting today…well, sort of. My first iris of the season had bloomed and I wanted to draw it before it faded. But the weather was a bit too chilly to paint it outside so I brought my drawing back inside to finish it.
The paper in this Pentalic sketchbook leans toward Hot Press, so I wasn’t
able to work as wet on wet as I would have liked.
However, because the paper wasn’t too “toothy” (in other words bumpy - a feature
of Cold Press and Rough watercolor papers) it allowed me to make up
in pen work what I wasn’t able to do in watercolor.
I went for a graphic design
look in this painting, using ink strengthen the plants while keeping the background
abstract.
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