I have three things to say.
1. I love my lightbox. (Thank you Peter, lightbox-maker.)
2. I am gratefully much less dead now.
3. I will be in Sydney this weekend for ASA madness (Barbara Jefferis Award, AGM and Colin Simpson Memorial lecture – being given by the eloquent Shaun Tan) stretching from Friday evening till Sunday. So if you’re coming too please say hi! I’ll be scarpering Sunday afternoon to get to a friend’s wedding reception back in Melbourne. Which means frocking up on the plane as I’ll be doing one of those romantic comedy dashes from taxi to plane to taxi and bursting in through the doors of the venue… all much less stressful when you’re just a guest and not a romantic lead.
Pirates today. So… roughs on the lightbox, drawing paper on top, 6H pencil doing a light trace ready for the final ink wash and nib treatment. Ahh the nib. I can see I’ll be collecting more of these. Who sells lovely nibs?? More fine/interesting ones for drawing than fat square ones for calligraphy. And feathers… are feathers actually good to draw with?
And here’s a picture of course. Another rough from the Pirate book.
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Hi Elise
Thanks for the kind comment on my blog. I’m really enjoying following yours.
I love these roughs. I think you should do a book just like this, maybe just colour them in photoshop.
All the very best
PJ
I always like my roughs and dummy books best. They’re so loose. I would love to have the courage to use them for a final book – thanks for the vote of confidence! I saw one of your videos on Youtube – of the dragon drawing to painting… such beautiful work. You seem to manage to keep working wet into wet without bleeds and watermarks. I didn’t see you rewetting but you must have had to let it finish drying… That would be a mammoth job to just manage the moisture, and work around and around the paper. The technique was beautiful. You seem to get an almost Dulac-ian quality to your washes in places – lots of sediment and richness in your darks. I get too impatient to wait sometimes. Pretending that I can keep going on a wash even though I know it is slightly too dry or patchy. But it’s a wonderful medium. I’m keeping an eye on your blog too. I hope the auction went well.
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