Muiderslot

 

Today the prompt in the Sketch A Day app is 'slot' and in Dutch that word means lock or castle. I decided to go for a castle.

Several years ago we visited the Muiderslot and I made a picture from an unusual angle, the castle is almost hiding behind vegetation. That picture is still waiting to be painted, but now I have used it for this drawing.

Again I made the drawing with watercolour pencils and used water on the building to awaken the colours. More pencil for depth and some lines with a fine liner for the definition of the towers and to indicate the small windows.

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.

Glade

 

When the prompt in the Sketch a Day app was 'Glade' I first had to look up the meaning of the word. Of course I am never too old to learn and now I really know what a glade is.

So I made a drawing of an imaginary glade, using my watercolour pencils. The grasses and bushes were given a bit of water to awaken the colours and after that more layers of pencil colour for depth.

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.