Ann's Gallery Jan 2023

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Light house

Using Bristol board with graphite pencil and charcoal, I started with a graph to get the prospective, I drew in the lighthouse and the cottages,
Then the sky was next.This execise was very time consuming, but I liked the way I progressed.Adding on graphite. I used the putty rubber to take away some of the graphite leaving some white areas in the sky.I used cotton buds to blend in the pencil lines making some areas quite smooth.I thorouly enjoyed this exercise, i wouldhave liked my end result to be a lot darker.i think I caught the rocks and the sea fairly well.

Cottage

Part 2 Barn and Gate By John Harrison
This watercolour with landscape was really enjoyable to do, I made my interpretion a finished Building opposed to a part done one. I used mostley the same coulours as the previous exercise. I used a very pale grey almost white for the gate and signpost. These exercises gave me hours of pleasure.

Blue Door

Part 1 Blue Door Inspired by Lindsy Cook
This was my second attempt at this task, a lovely subject, looks simple enough, but here was quite a lot of detail.
Using a pencil sketch to start I tried to get the door as realistic as possible. The bricks came next, followed loosely by the foliage around the brick work, I then went over it with a fine liner pen. The water colour wash was applied in several layers using burnt umber,
raw umber, cadmen yellow. I continued with different shades of green, made up of ultramarine and various strengths of yellow mix.
This was s really nice exercise.

Cyfartha Castle

I knew this wouldn't be an easy task because of all the details required. There was only one way for me to start this, it would be my faithful grid method. I think I got the perspective fairly accurate (for me). Starting with the left side of the Castle I put in as much detail as i could in pencil, then came the moment of truth, going over it with fine liner ink. I took more care with the detail, and got the result I wanted. I used water colour paints on the sky and the rest of the picture, starting with the Sky, using pale blue, leaving white areas the to give it a realistic look. On the stonework I used Paynes Grey mixed with white, and then continued with Raw Sienna on the archway and steps. Then the trees I used various colours of Greens. I added a few more details in ink to finish. This exercise was time consuming but well worth the effort, another one I enjoyed doing.

Bridge n Bosnia

Straight off I liked the look of this task, I researched this artist John Hoar and liked his style of work. I used my usual grid method, it gives me confidence when sketching. I started off with pencil, I got this as accurate as I could, then continued with fine liner ink. The water colour wash came next over the sky, I used Ultramarine mix with Cerulean blue, the building came next with diluted Raws Sienna, then giving it time to dry I went over with some shading on the buildings, and touches of Orange on the rooves of the houses. I put on more ink details. The bushes came next in various shades of Green, i also added a few rushes in the front of my picture to make it a bit more interesting. The last thing I did was to use stronger Blue shades for the water. It was a pleasant project, I enjoyed it very much.

Woman combing her hair by Edgar Degas Pastel

This Task turned out to be different in many ways, the main problem was the snow, closing the centre, so it was very much on your own at home on this one.
I used an A4 black Pastelmat and pastel pencils, to get me started I used, generally to get the subject in the right proportions (The grid can be removed by drawing over it with coloured pastel pencils)
I proceeded to sketch an outline in white pencil, I enjoyed this process very much, concentrating on the hair to start with, I layered the colours light on dark, it was trial and error for me, but I continued with the body, not sure if this process was right.
The last step was the background, throughout I used the pastel pencils I had, it meant the finished product was my own. I made a big mistake by spraying it with a colourless fixative, I think I was too close to the paper, it muted the colour of the pastels.
I repeated the process with a different, lighter coloured Pastetmat, I was happy with both efforts, it gave me hours of pleasure.

Welsh Mountain Home sketch by David Bellamy

I started with water colour pencil to draw the outlines, there wasn't a great amount of detail in this task, it was fun using watercolour pencil, it was easy to control.
After sketching and continuing with the rest of the colouring and shading, I sprayed the whole page with water, then dabbed off the excess water, you could see the pencil marks. I think this was the effect required.
This was a first for me, because I finish 2 versions of the same picture in one session in class. A good outcome all round.

House on a hill

I used Bristol Board Paper for this exercise, it has a lovely smooth surface, I think it’s ideal for pencil and ink drawing.

I started once again I used a grid, I started by sketching the trunk of the tree and the house, using sandpaper to get a chiselled edge on the Pencil.

Slowly I kept on adding more details with branches leaves, shading, and background details in pencil, it was an enjoyable process. I followed on with

Fine liner pen making the whole scene more vibrant. I feel that I really progressed on this exercise, and was really pleased with the outcome.

Pen and wash after Rob Adams

I started with a grid making the buildings easier to draw in the right proportions. I enjoyed taking my time to get the Vertical and Horizontal

Lines in place. I found it therapeutic, I used Sepia wash for the buildings, and added pale blues for the houses and street. I added green and

yellow for the bushes, this was a mistake as this was a winter scene. I’ll try harder next time