This started as a very pale watercolour landscape that I uploaded onto my Samsung Galaxy Note tablet into a free Markers app. I’ve been making it darker and darker with cross-hatching and scribbles but I think this is about as dark as I can go with it.
The slides show the process from the original little painting, Winsor & Newton half pans onto St. Cuthbert’s Mill watercolour paper, through to the final, rather Gothic, drawing of darkness. I don’t normally work like this, it’s been good for me to break out of my comfort zone.
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Gors Fawr, near Mynachlog-ddu in the Preseli mountains, a lush green bog fringed with glowing hills.
Wow, is this done on an app Rosie? You get the most terrific lively feel in your digital drawings!
Thanks Phil. The original is a rather insipid little watercolour uploaded into a free app called Markers.
I think I’m most attracted to the fourth iteration, but I’m not the artist so I completely understand pushing it as far as you can!
The beauty of working digitally is that each phase is saved and stored so doesn’t get destroyed.
They’ve become strange, hooded figures. Intriguing progression
There’s a definite metamorphosis. It’s very different for me. I don’t know where it will lead….
that is the fun part, not knowing but it can also unnerving, I dealt with that myself just today.
I think we have to give ourselves time to experiment and fail if we have to, in order to develop.