Two Works in Progress – Watercolour, Pencil, Art App Media

Gum leaves are a favourite subject of mine; their sweeping curves are a joy to capture in a dance of pencil lines. These had their beautiful bonnet shaped flowers on show.

I picked them while I was out walking with our dogs. I also collected some with gum nuts, which I’ve drawn in graphite pencil – it’s in the little gallery below.

This one above is a print from a tiny watercolour I did. It has a touch of colour dabbed on it in the Procreate app. I’m in the process of applying more watercolour, and a bit of oil pastel to the print; as well as using some water-soluble pencils – I often get the colour from these pencils by wiping a wet brush across the tips of them. I’ll also finish my original watercolour .

The Canson 220gsm drawing paper is proving to be excellent to print on, and takes light water washes well. The Epson printer inks I use don’t run. I also print on some lovely watercolour papers…

I’m working on a few miniature watercolours, (among other things) which I’ll also scan and print – and perhaps rework… Plan to share them soon. I hope to open my little Art Shop soon. I make mention of it here. Thanks for stopping by! *To enlarge the images below, please tap on a pic. More info on the captions. 

In the “Procreate” app, I used the artist crayon to add more colour. It’s printed on A5 size Canson paper. I’ll deepen the lines and colour in the original watercolour to finish it.

A (Bic) graphite pencil and a water-soluble graphite pencil drawing of gumleaves and gum nuts, that I collected on a walk today. Not yet finished.

The scan can be lightened, but I liked to deep tones. Worked on it further with the eraser in Procreate, set to burnt tree charcoal – this has a similiar grain to that of the paper.

This print of my pencil drawing showed a pleasing range of tones. Tried to capture that in this photo – difficult to do. Will tint a print with watercolour.