Wednesday 11 September 2013

29 FACES DAY 11

Sam Sea Dog
Sam threw himself onto the paper with gusto in a very short time.  He was drawn with black Indian ink.  I went out into the garden and broke off a rather dead twig about 12 inches long to use as my drawing implement.


This is the twig, which I held at arms length to draw the old fellow, using the end at the right which you can see has a black tip from the ink.  I twisted it round to get a finer or thicker line, and by chance one of the angles produced the double line which you can see was quite good for the beard.

 Great fun.

9 comments:

  1. I like Sam, he looks a friendly fellow :) You are so clever Jez creating him out of ink and a twig!

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  2. That does look like fun. I've never tried that technique with ink.

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  3. Sounds like a great technique to try out Jez and you have got great results with Sam the Sea Dog. He has such a friendly face:)

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  4. Aye, what a great fellow! :) A clever technique, it has a challenge in it!

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  5. So many wonderful face I'm in love with Olga & Mimi you are so talented.

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  6. He's great: weathered but warm! And what a great idea it was to make use of that stick; it suited your art perfectly!

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  7. How cool that you used a twig as an art tool! Very neat sketch of a sea man. He looks great :)

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  8. sam is great. i love your innovative technique! thank you for sharing.

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  9. You really did challenge yourself with this technique. And he is a Marvellous character.

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