A quickly done little painting of a kitten sitting on the floor or a wooden table. I used toned paper and the watercolour pencils that I received in the September Sketchbox.
Watercolour pencils are really convenient to turn a drawing into a painting and to avoid to have to wet paper too much.
I’m preparing a bunch of drawings and paintings that I’ll frame and give as gifts to some of my favourite colleagues who I’ll see soon! This one if for Amy.
The September Sketchbox contained a series of watercolour pencils in natural earthly tones, a mechanical pencil and a thin flat brush.
Here are a few pictures I took while making a 30×18 cm watercolor after one image from the graphic novel “Daytripper” by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá:
My friend Daniel gave me a book on Chinese Brush Painting. Although I have owned for years now three or four Chinese brushes and a few sheets of rice paper, I was not ready for this undertaking, and chose to continue with watercolor, since I have recently enjoyed it so much (and my vacation was getting to an end, so I went for the most gratifying process.)
It took me several attempts sketching the figure to keep to realistic proportions (the man still has a slightly too big head and too short a torso), I used a Pentel black ink Brushpen, which performs wonderfully on really thin and thick lines:
I then erased the pencil and turned to watercolor. I used alizarin crimson for the flowers:
I added a few touches of black with my Brushpen to create the details of the flowers. I prepared yellow watercolor and painted the hat by drawing rays and leaving some white. I darkened my yellow with yellow ochre and added a few touches to the hat and went on painting the skin. I darkened further the mix with a bit of burnt sienna to paint the stick. Lastly I mixed a bit of turquoise and white to paint the belt.
I added water to my ochre/brown mix and with a light wash painted the background so the white robe would stand out. Here is the resulting painting framed (12.2×17.2 cm):
