Snow - a pencil drawing

 

For the prompt 'Snow' I did not have to search for inspiration. My new coloured paper with the Graphitint Pencils should be a nice experiment.

Like the drawings made with my watercolour pencils I first made a layer of pencil, applied some water to 'awaken' the colours and worked on that with a second layer of pencil.

The Graphitint pencils have an extra: using water makes them change colour a bit. That is a nice base to work on with the dry colour for extra depth.

The result is what I hoped for in this small drawing.

The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this drawing and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.

Cranberry - a pencil drawing

 

Another 'Sketch a day' drawing, I am really happy that I found this app. It helps me to keep a daily habit of sketching, sometimes a quick one, sometimes the sketch becomes a small drawing.

The prompt 'Cranberry' made me want to try to achieve that very special red colour these berries have - especially when they arrive in my kitchen fresh from the store. For this I might have used watercolour for a better result and maybe I will try if that is so.

For now I am happy with my little drawing of a branch of cranberries.

The information about the materials I have used, the size of this drawing, its availability and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.

Corn - a pencil drawing

 

Not all drawings and sketches I make for the Sketch A Day app will be published here because sometimes I just don't have the time or inspiration to make much of the sketch.

This time the prompt was 'corn' and I really wanted to do a bit more than just a quick sketch.

Once again on a tinted paper, using my Watercolour pencils I made a drawing of corn on the cob. Using a bit of water and a second layer of pencil for depth made this just as I wanted it to be.

The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this drawing and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.

Looking far

 

A few weeks ago, as we drove close to our vacation home in the Moselle valley we were surprised by the Autumn colours of the vineyards. Last spring all was still bare, only a few leaves visible, now a warm yellow was the dominant colour.

We stopped - in a safe spot- for some pictures and looking through these pictures I really did like this scene, although I feared that a painting would not really do justice to the great view.

So I had to add something unexpected and the binoculars were a very logical choice. This is mostly because looking far is 'ver kijken' and binoculars is 'verrekijker' in Dutch.

The binoculars are antique ones, and I changed the angle (on Internet they are pictured from the front) so they could hang from the nail.

This was fun!

The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this work and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.

Crop

 

Today the prompt in the 'Sketch A Day' app was 'Crop' so I first looked at the other entries to see how other people interpreted the prompt. I do that very often, there is a slight difference in translation possible. The prompts are in English, I am Dutch. Looking at the other entries also helps me find inspiration when that is needed.

Working with water soluble pencils helps me to define my subject by using water to 'awaken' the colours of the first layer and then adding a second layer of colour for depth. The three plants in the foreground are detailed, the others are only suggested.

At that point in my process I decided to add another meaning of 'crop' to my drawing by adding the lines I use when cropping a picture on the computer before I publish my work online.

The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this drawing and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.

Grapevines in autumn

 

During one of the walks we made in the Moselle Valley we passed by some grapevines that had the greatest Autumn colours and some of the grapes were still hanging on the plants. Those grapes were almost black and smelled as if they had started to ferment already.

My husband and me liked the view and we both made some pictures of the leaves and those dark grapes. For this painting I combined two pictures.

After the background had dried I made a composition of leaves, stems and branches and added a nice bunch of grapes.

The leaves were painted in shades of yellow with some dark browns added and for the grapes I combined several dark colours until I got the right purple-brownish almost black colour that I remembered.

Making a picture of my work proved difficult, the November light is not great and a few of my background yellows seem to disappear in the picture. Unfortunately I cannot optimise that without losing the beauty of the grapes.

The information about the materials I have used, the size and availability of this work and - if you are interested in my original artwork - my contact information can all be found in my Tumblr blog.