Rusted Pipe

Much like the little tree frog doodle, this is also not watercolor but ink (with a splash of watercolor in blue).  I am really enjoying the Birmingham Pen Co inks, with such fun names like Carrie Furnace Pig Iron (the rusted red brown) and G.C. Murphy Tarnished Nickel (the steel black).  This is a bit of a departure from the stuff I have been doing lately.  Always nice to try something different.  

     Brush and ink on extra heavy weight 270 gsm mixed media paper (Stillman & Birn)

Xenopus!!

This is an illustration that I have been meaning to post for awhile.  It is a request from a friend that I was happy to accommodate.  It is an illustration, but with watercolor.  So instead of just pushing water and color around the paper and hoping for the best, I had to exert much more control.  I really like the final product.

                                       Watercolor on 140 lbs watercolor paper 9x10


And this little guy is actually not watercolor, but Sketch Ink (by Rohrer & Klingner).  Done mostly using Emma (a dark green ink) with a touch of Carmen (a yellow-orange ink).  

                                  Pen & ink on 140 lbs watercolor paper 4x6

Merry Inkmas Part I

While I have not been posting a whole lot, I have been very active painting, but also drawing (I will post them in the new year).  Actually, I have be drawing and cartooning a lot. Below is a series of drawings using various colored fountain pen inks.  These are the first four, the next four (superheroes!!) will be posted after Christmas.

All of drawings were done in a Stillman & Birn Zeta series (270 gsm wt paper) 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch hardcover.  Ink and pen combo written below each image.

           Robert Oster African Gold ink; Monte Verde Intima (Goulet broad nib)

        Robert Oster Black Violet ink; Edison Nouveau Purple Reign (Spring 2018 fine nib)

      Birmingham David O Selznick Lilac Wind ink; Lamy Al Star Purple (fine nib) and a little bit of Daniel Smith rose of ultramarine watercolor for the background

Robert Oster Australian Brown and Orange Rumble inks; Edison Nouveau Premiere Galaxia (Fall 2018 extra fine nib) and Lamy Al Star Copper Orange (fine nib)