Here are the last couple of drawings from my weekend sketching ancient burial chambers in North Pembrokeshire. This one at Pentre Ifan is drawn in charcoal, carbon and white conte crayon onto Fabriano Accademica that I had marbled with black oil paint mixed with turpentine.
Here’s the dolmen drawn over a previous drawing of Maltese catacombs in home-made walnut ink. What next? Well, I’m doing some experiments with cyanotype. Hopefully, if they’re successful, I’ll blog them tomorrow.
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I love the reuse of sketches
Waste not want not as my Nana used to say. And Nanas are always right.
I’ve really enjoyed following this series – the drawings are so impressive and your technique really inspirational. Would it be a bore to explain how you did that marbling?
I’m glad you’ve enjoyed them. The marbling was easy. I mixed a little bit of black oil paint with some English turpentine in a small jam jar. i put the lid on and shook it to mix it. Then I half-filled an old plastic washing-up bowl with water, let it settle and then poured a bit of the paint onto the surface. I dropped the paper (Fabriano Accademica 200gsm) onto the surface, lifted it off and there it was 😀
Great, thanks. I’ll try that at some point – it does create a marvellous effect.
very cool! really love that first one!
Thank you. No chipmunks here though 😉
you just don’t know what’s behind those stones! WALL OF NINJA CHIPMUNKS PREPARING FOR AN ATTACK! Or just some grass. Either way…
No chipmunks around here. They are too exotic. We got sheep. They’re pretty rough.
Really love this series of drawings, they’re so ‘rocky’ in exactly the right way, and the dolmens are knockout too, amazing landscape!
Thank you, Phil . I think that using prepared paper made all the difference. I don’t like working on white.