Steph
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Tree-lined country road
One of my first plein-air paintings, in pallet watercolors on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. A windy day made this on-site painting a struggle.
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Daffodils and ladybug
Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink, applied with a dip pen on Bristol board. Colors are Copic alcohol markers. Illustrated for my grandmothers’s 80th birthday.
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D.Gray-man page redraw
A redraw of page 27 of the first volume of the manga series D.Gray-man, which I completed as part of a 20th anniversary fan-led redraw project. The original page on which I based my new layout can be seen below. You can read the full zine here (pages turn in right-to-left manga format). The password…
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Market produce
With the farmer’s market as today’s sketching location, I knew it would be pretty ambitious to capture so much activity in gouache alone, so I brought a fountain pen and a cheap portable watercolor palette instead. I relied on ink lines to capture shapes quickly so that I would have time to drop some color…
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Cemetery light
Gouache practice again! This time I tried starting with a very limited palette. It seemed to actually make color-matching easier? I aimed for a palette with the following hues:
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Myrtle Beach shoreline
Sketched from the Surfside pier on a frighteningly windy day. I had to grip my sketchbook hard to keep the wind from taking it. Lines: Noodler’s Bulletproof Black ink in Traveller’s Co. brass fountain pen Canvas: Traveller’s Co. sketchbook paper
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Rail bridge in summer
I’m learning to paint with gouache in the hopes of improving my eye for color, and my color-mixing ability. Today’s piece didn’t hit quite all the shades of brown I was aiming for, but I learned a good bit and had some good discussions with friends along the way. 🙂
