Tree imps in the fog
Walking home last night was almost like being on a beautiful film set.
All around me, everything was twinkling with frost.
My feet crunched on the brick pavement, strangely noisy in the thick silence. A heavy fog had rolled in, like a wash of intense watercolour – china white mixed with a dab of indigo.
The street-lamps shone through the fog like gleaming beacons.
And then I looked up and saw these dancing branches – I thought they looked stunning.
And when I think of them now, I can see them morphing into leaping, giggling, gangly-limbed imps...
Pearl
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Time lapse drawing - 'Flower Head'
Time lapse footage of work on a fantasy drawing called 'Flower Head'
Hello friends - I hope everyone is having a great summer. Inspired by the lushness that's blooming in the countryside at the moment, I have created a drawing called 'Flower Head'. Here is some sped up footage of me working on it.
For this piece I used a hard lead pencil ('H') for drawing in the basic shapes, then began to fill in and add tone with softer pencils (2B and 4B). Next, I used black pen (a fine tipped liner and a fine tipped Bic) for definition and depth. Finally, I scanned the drawing into the computer to add colour.
