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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Watercolor Portrait of Woman with White Hair.

Watercolor Portrait of a woman with white hair was a fun painting I did this last week.  I wanted to do something misty and ethereal which it sort of is.

I am loving the colors of blue and purple contrasting the warmer flesh tones. I did not intend to use black but the eyelashes were too pale so I bit the bullet and added black around the eyes. It seemed wrong to only have black there so I gave a little speckle of black around the side of the face to mark the border of the whitish hair and the face. I wanted to have more movement of a soft texture in the face but just lost interest in doing that after putting so much texture in the background.

I began to feel that I was overworking the picture so I decided it was done.

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Watercolor Portrait of Bald Man, Almost Abstract

A watercolor portrait of a man is a drawing I did in watercolor to experiment with the color combinations of the face. There are many colors in the human face some are from the skin or the flesh below the skin. Some colors we see are reflected colors from the environment and some are the effects of the lighting; then the shadows add other colors.

Watercolor portrait of man

I was very happy with the results of the project. It was not a study in anatomy and a discerning viewer will note the mistakes in the proportions, (I won't list them you can look for them). I liked the way the colors worked together and in places contrasted each other. I liked the extremes of the colors it is like the very warm yellows and the very cold blues battle it out on the paper.

Watercolor of Falls Across Lake Neuman

Watercolor Painting of Falls Across Lake Neuman

Water Color Of Falls Across Lake Newman.

This is a watercolor of the waterfall across a lake. It is painted on a sheet of 9x11 paper.

I had a lot of enjoyment painting this picture, and worked on it over several days whenever I had a few minutes here and there.

MY TECHNIQUE
The sky was a clear wash with color dropped into the water. The distant mountain was done in several washy layers.  The middle ground was done with a wash first and the details applied by dabbing after the wash was dry. The water in the foreground was a dry brush at first, but I was not happy with the effect so I gave a clear water wash over it and that smoothed out the roughness.

ARTIST CIRQUE
It is an OK painting but not one of my best.  I think I could have worked more on the composition before I executed it. I could have done more with the under-wash before going to the smaller brush and adding detail; maybe I did too much with the smaller brush.  The intention of the shore line was to make it uneven but instead it looks tilted.  There is too much water in the lower area; I thought of putting a near shore in part of the foreground, which I wish I had done so now.  The values are too flat in the middle ground; the colors should pale in the distance and be more brilliant in the foreground. I admit I was struggling with the medium a bit. I should have used more of the sky color in the water; the two different blues look inharmonious in the same picture, one knows logically the sky is reflected in the water and share a large volume of color.

Live and learn. Never give up.

I hope this discussion is helpful for you in your art.

(c) Adron

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Practice Model Wood Man.

Wood Man Practice Drawing

Today I was teaching a class on drawing and we took our wood man model, set him on an upturned glass jar and drew him in a sitting pose.

This drawing took about twenty minutes. I used only an hb pencil.

I do a quick rough sketch by marking the location of the joints and drawing connecting structures between the joints. This makes an outline and then I go over it again and again making corrections and adding shading for volume. It was only part of the class if we had more time I would make a lot of little changes with the shadows and clean up the lines.

These are great ways to learn the basic human figure and cheaper than paying for a class. I recommend it.

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Chokeberry Flowers, Handmade Print

Chokeberry flower. 

This is a mono print, a handmade one of a kind image.

Chokeberry,  Monoprint,  edition of 1 by Adron.

I made this by drawing directly on the ink with a pencil while it was on the ink-glass then pressed paper onto it. This is not the normal way of print making, at least that I know, normally you would cut a block of wood, linoleum, or foam and then ink the block then press the paper onto the block. It allows you to make many editions of the same image. The block can be re-cut for additional colors and effects, but the mono print does not offer that opportunity.

I think it would have been more effective if I had a different tool other than the pencil that I used to draw the picture with. Maybe a wider or duller instrument would have given more variety in the lines, and more interest in the picture.

I am happy with the results and will consider framing it.

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(c) Adron