In my two most recent films for Room For Art I show various techniques for sketching and painting with ink - using a dipping nib pen, using a paintbrush...
1 - adding ink to a colour painting
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb5gsJYw5PE
2 - sketching & painting with ink for atmosphere & drama
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Y2eNDTrJQ
Monochrome
There's something about black ink on white paper, the extreme light-dark has such impact.
If you fancy going for this but have no drawing ink - don't worry!
Try:
- paint (watercolour, acrylic, household...
- oil pastel
- chalk pastel
- charcoal
- biro
- drawing ink
- coloured pencil
- graphite pencil
- collage - black paper cut & torn & stuck onto white
- photography - turn on black & white setting on your camera or convert photos you've already taken.
- any form of printmaking - linocut, polystyrene print, potato print, etching...
- whatever else you may have!
Examples:
Here are examples - a few my own and lots from the Art In Healthcare Collection.
I look forward to seeing some of yours :)
Kate Downie
Abbeyhill Joker
printmaking
(watch a short film about Kate's work at link above)
Vincent Butler
Basket of Fruit
pencil
Ade Adesina
Decline
printmaking
(watch a short film about Ade's work at link above)
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
8 Lines II
etching
(watch a short film about Wilhelmina's work at link above)
Thomas Grace
149 Steps
printmaking
Kirstie Behrens
Windswept Trees
etching
Luke Vinnicombe
Ceremony II
ink
Leo, pencil
Leo, pen
Leo, ink & brush & dip pen
Monochrome needn't only be black & white!
Monochrome means 'one colour' - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/monochrome
Try making an artwork of only sepia brown & white, red & white, green & white...
Examples:
Here are more examples. Again from the Art In Healthcare Collection and my own.
nb. some are black & white and one colour
Ian Hamilton Finlay
CITRON BLUE [AFTER A DETAIL IN A PAINTING BY WILLIAM GILLIES]
printmaking
Ian Hamilton Finlay
SEA MS
printmaking
Cat Outram
Seedheads
etching
Ross Georgeson
Playfair Parade
printmaking
Brenda Herdman
Border Collie
photo
Leo, sea and rails, watercolour
Leo, felt tip pen
Leo, lifeboat abstract, watercolour
Leo, library abstract, felt tip
Leo, watercolour
Leo, watercolour
Leo, acrylic
I seem to like blue and grey don't I.
Which colours do you find yourself monochroming with?
Explore the many monochrome works in the Art In Healthcare Collection - https://www.artinhealthcare.org.uk/collection-results.php?s=1&searchtext=&colour=monochrome
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