Simple Marker Pen Drawing of Prairie Farm

This is a drawing I did of a farm surrounded by wheat fields on the prairie.

Pen Drawing of Prairie Farm

Fine tipped marker is a fun medium and offers a lot of opportunities for expression. You can master line and texture with a little effort. It frees you to discover basics of composition without the problems other techniques.

This is a very simple drawing- almost a doodle. The foreground was all wheat but I wanted to make the focus on the farm so I left it for the imagination, but I think the bottom left is too bare and it might have looked better with a fence or road leading to the farmhouse. The trees are just a texture with wiggly shaped dots. Instead of just drawing a line for the foreground hill I chose to use hash marks to give the feel of the wheat field.

It was drawn quickly. I used a sharp tipped marker from the grocery store, and it is drawn on printer paper, so we are not talking archival quality

I might redo it in another version with watercolor.

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Candlestick and Box Sketch in Marker

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Marker drawing of Candlestick and Box

I was trying to get the roundness of the candlestick and the grey tones of the box while using a simple ink drawing  technique. The top of the box is suppose to be whiter by contrast. 

It is a very simple composition, in fact too simple, I wish I had a few more elements added like a book or fruit or something. 

It is good to practice and I will bring this to the class I am teaching the home school kids as an example of what can be done in marker.

I was using a cheep marker from the grocery store and printer paper. I found the marker made blots when you first touched the page. This can be good or bad depending on what you are trying to do. If you held the marker at a sharp angle the line was very thin and skippy and if you held the marker more vertical the ink came out very thick.

I prefer the professionals markers, but knowing the effects of the cheep ones is useful for some projects, so I am always experimenting.   

Charcoal Sketch of Apples in Bowl

This is a sketch I did to demonstrate technique to a class of young artist.

Charcoal Drawing of Apples in Wooden Bowl

I was focusing on the light against the dark. The dark background brings the bowl forward. The dark area of the bowl sets off the light areas in the apples. I liked how the thick wooden bowl had a thick edge, it gives a deep line of contrast separating the bowl from the dark background on the right.  The placement of the apple outside the bowl is set off by the shadow of the bowl.

I used pencil, various charcoal pencils and blending stubs. It was drawn in my sketchbook and it took about 25 minutes.

Apples are not really that round they have a unique shape but my purpose was to show technique.

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Rural Barn Scene in Fine Tipped Marker

This is a landscape with a barn, a shed, and hay roles in a field. I drew it to show some kids what can be done with fine tipped markers.

Rural Barn Scene in Fine Tipped Markers.

I started by drawing a light pencil drawing. I really wanted to give a sense of distance, so I used a .005 and a .01 tipped marker for the mountains and trees in the background, for the foreground I used a .3 and .5 tipped marker.

I like using dots and short dashes to make images, it worked well for the trees in the back ground and middle ground.

I enjoyed drawing this and am happy with the results.

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Pen and Ink Drawing Gourds

These three gourds grew in our garden a year ago. I was looking for something fun to sketch so gave them a try. I used .01,.03, & .05 pens.

I used a lot of dots to capture the rough texture of the gourds, since they were fuzzy and flaky. I wanted to use various techniques but somehow the dots were so effective that I felt other approaches would take away from the finished project. It takes a long time to learn when to quit when drawing.

Pen And Ink Drawing of Gourds 

This project took about one and a half hour to do. I think I got bored with it. Maybe the only thing I would change would be to use a #3 grey Coptic marker to tone down the background.

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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.

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