While we are all staying close to home and avoiding people-contact, there are many online sketchers who are generously posting free tutorials and online classes. I’ve been following the YouTube videos that Belgium architect and artist Barbara Luel has been posting daily — she calls these her Corona Sketchbooks (Find links on her blog HERE.) and she begins each one with a beautiful watercolor of the virus itself!
I decided to try a couple of her tools and draw a portion of the living area of our daughter’s farmhouse where we are temporarily living. (My cat, Bardie MacRuadh, sat on the couch watching me.) I laid aside my pencil and fountain pens, and drew this directly with a Mark’s Inc.ballpoint pen. Then I used a white Dermatograph oil-based pencil to save whites and a Rosemary sable travel brush like hers. Mine is a dagger brush; I’m not sure which style hers is.
I’m not very fond of using masking fluid — I really do like using the white pencil to save whites instead. It didn’t work so good on a portion of the area rug’s grid but the sketch still captures the idea, and I can’t add the shadows of the window frames later. But overall, I think this is a tool I will continue to use.
I do like the thin, refillable ballpoint pens from Mark’s. They fit my hand well and write very smoothly with waterproof ink. Adding watercolor makes the ink lines recede into the background, which is useful if I want the watercolor to take center stage. And they are so thin, they are easy to fit in whatever I am carrying. Not as noticeable as fountain pen lines if I’m drawing something without a lot of confidence! These pens are hard to find though; I found this one at Jetpens.com and they only offered the one color.
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