Well a very busy and successful week has just finished. The Thames work, a digital and hard copy has been finished and also the France 2017 work has been digitalised with a hard copy as well completed.

 

The image is of the Art Deco in the early morning light at Marlow.

 

For the Thames work a slightly textured heavy weight paper was chosen and the usual pen (a pilot g tec.) used. However the technique of using the pen was with a negative pressure method. Simply, that is by rather then pressing the pen onto the paper, lifting the pen so that it only lightly glazes over the surface. This produces a very light broken line. Repeated over and over, a light textural effect is gained.

 

By using the above method and keeping the sketches small in size, rapid meaningful images could be produced.

 

Time for sketching was limited as when going through the many locks I was acting as deckhand number 2; very good fun, even if not very wise. But a super five days.