Marker Drawing of a Snake

Snake Drawn With Felt tip markers. 

Felt tip markers have a lot to offer. The lines can be very clean and you can achieve a graceful motion in the composition. They allow one to do many kinds of technique.

I did this to illustrate to my students some of the technique available with ink pens like fine tip markers.

The snake is first drawn in pencil and then gone over with sharpie. After the basic design is done the pencil is erased then the details are added.

The snake has some details added by line and hatching. There are different textures in the bark of the branch and no texture in the blade-like leaves. The snake has a pattern on scales. I confess I got board with the project and didn't do a very professional job on the scales.

The background was all dots. I used a broad tip marker for the background.

I could have done more with the branch and leaves but I wanted to focus on the snake.

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Blue Ridge Mountain Road Watercolor

Road in The Blue Ridge Mountains 

Here is a painting I did in watercolor of one of the roads in the blue ridge mountains.

I did it with a lot of washes at first using a wet into wet technique. The background mountains and hills were wash and almost left alone at that point. I did a little darker green texturing in the hills to show the trees on the hills.

The fields were washed in yellow at first and when the that dried I went over it in greens to give the field texture but leaving some of the yellow to show through.

The trees were done with a wash and then texturing over the dry wash using a signature brush. This allows me to use the brush to draw the texture in. The and the forward fields were done the same way.

The road was a problem. At first I used small brushes to draw blue streaks across it but the picture was beginning to look too cold. I tried to add a layer of sienna brown to warm thins up but that looked too contrived, so I gave it a wash with panes gray. All this made it look too dark. I had to use clear water and a paper towel to lift out some of the color. It still looks dark but better and has a little balance between the bright greens and the cool  blues of the background.

I am very happy with this picture.

Watercolor Of A Villa By The Lake

This is a watercolor I worked on for some time. I think I got bored with it for a while but came back to it and finished it nicely.

It was inspired by a photo of a villa on some lake.  I started by giving it some light washes. I made a mistake and did the background mountains too dark, I wanted to give them less value so the focus would be more on the foreground. However, I kept working it over and lifted out some of the background using a wash and tissue to absorb some of the color and it also muted some of the detail.

Watercolor of Villa by The Lake

I used a small brush and a liner brush for most of the top work that was done over the wash. I know it is not the way most people paint but I enjoy it and like the results. It is a variation of pointillism. I use the liner brush heavily in the lake foreground to give the water a gentle ripple effect.

I think I used a lot of greens. In the future, I might use a separate pallet just for the greens.

(c) Adron

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