Ten-minute Sketch #17

[Balaji]

The inkwork for this 4" x 5" sketch was one of my early ones last year to bring some steadiness to my hand. I did many ten-minute sketches and this was the seventeenth of them. I also used this series of sketches to learn new ways of representing foliage.

I added the watercolour washes yesterday with the same quick approach.

 

[ams]

Nice with the added color. The tree experiment worked. It amazes me sometimes how effective some well-placed scribbles can be.

 

[Balaji]

Thank you Anne.

 

[Joy]

The feeling of motion and realism in the trees for such a few lines is amaxing I was on holiday a while and am "catching up" on so many things.

 

[Balaji]

Thank you Joy. It was Stephen Travers, an Australian pen and ink artist who, through his demo videos on Youtube, introduced me to this style of sketching - quickly and with fewer lines, and Vanidas Mangathil, a Bengaluru based artist who, through his demo videos, also on Youtube, who helped me shed my inhibitions about painting and choice of colours.