Hedges

So another bank holiday, another trip to the countryside. In the garden they have these huge yew hedges. They are certainly a challenge to draw. There is large pallet of greens and the volume aren’t quiet regular enough to be reliable.

Paperwork

Maybe this is something i shoud have documented the other week, but i was too busy having fun (making messes). Here is some research and some more thoughts on the process of making pebble paper and what goes into a composition.

You also get a quick peek of the cactus – they have mainly survived the summer. Sorry it’s taken so long to post, but i’ve not really had my word head on the last couple of days.

In the pink

Goauche roller end on to pastel paper then crayon over the top

Muji jotter a crumpled then used to clean black roller and burnish crayons

Chinese calligraphy paper, very absorbent and delicate. Gouache at various stages of dryness

Blue copier paper painted before scrumpled. When dry, crayon

Marbled paper from alphabet project, violet wash

Tissue paper used as mask for printing

Muji paper torn and stuck on black paper

Thick blue gouache applied with roller under brown wash then little red crayon on highlights

Patterned paper, black roller and bleed proof white

Copier paper dipped into exhausted black dye bath

Origami paper with roller then red crayon to burnish

Muji origami paper with print roller and white with feather

Ghost of cut out failed to stick down

Roller marks on jotter paper

Circular origami paper with bleach spray

Off cut over wet applied olive brown ink

Pastel coloured card with scrumpled insets

Cut out

Large origami paper with burnished graphite

Graduated pastels on copier paper

Large origami paper. Generous ink wash drys feathery, torn and reasembled

Scrumpled small square paper torn and stuck on black

Post card weight wash on back comes through slightly

Ingres pastel paper, pule wash and red crayon

Thumbnail sketches

#stone

stones are small pieces of rock. they may be bigger than houses in some cases, but if they have fallen off a mountain then they are stones. stones come in a variety of sizes, some classify anything bigger than sand as gravel, others have a more nuanced gradation of descriptions.
Pebbles are between 4 and 64 mmm in diametre. Cobbles are between 64 and 256 mm in size. Boulders between 256 and 630 mm. large boulders are bigger. so while you can now pick out the correct stone in an identity parade, what is it that makes stones interesting to look at.