Sunrise on a quiet village - ink and watercolour

By Robert Meredith -
This image was inspired by an art work by Rob Adams. I love his work and the style of pen and ink is great, very loose and free.

This is my attempt of creating a task for my classes. I used an A3 sheet of mixed media paper and sketched out in pencil its outline and enough information before I progressed to watercolour.

I used cerulean blue and a warm yellow for the sky area. I added some darker tones over the existing layers. This was left to dry. Then I added the ink work. 

With dipping pen and bottled ink.  I loved the whole process and it was great to add my own creativity to this image.  I find pen and ink great to use as you can stop for breaks and feel no.pressure, very relaxing. This took about 2 to 3 hours to complete.  Here is the process of adding the ink work.



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