White Dragon Queen

Somewhere in this blog I mentioned that I was planning do more drawings on a regular basis. Well, in the middle of last week I thought I put that plan into practice - but nothing worked. I was deeply frustrated but decided to keep on trying. I remembered the grid technique and tried that. Gimp 2.10 offers the possibility to lay a grid over an image - so I looked for a photo, downloaded it, put the grid over it, put up the grid on paper and began to draw. What you can see above is the result of my first try.

Lines and Shapes

I definitely like these tiny sheets of watercolour paper. I think I would not be able to do a proper watercolour piece on them because they are so small, but drawing and painting with my markers is fine for me. And I love the way the texture of the paper goes with the relatively flat colours of the markers.

Summer Colours

This colourful painting was done with alcoholbased markers on a tiny sheet of watercolour paper. I got this paper together with other material from my dear neighbour. I enjoy using this tiny format especially with markers as it does not take so long as bigger format. When I've finished it and scanned it in I put it in my sketchbook - so I can use it for inspiration with bigger formats.

The Kraken

Just now I am switching between alcoholbased markers and acrylics. This kraken has been painted with acrylic inks and acrylic tube paints, and I tried to mix the one with the other. It works, especially when I tried to get some white into my acrylic inks. In addition to that I found out that with thinning down acrylic inks with water I could produce a background very similar to a watercolour background.