The sketchbook is a great platform for media exploration. I was experimenting with ink wash this week, playing with warm and cool temperatures. This drawing was based on one of my quick karate sketches while observing my kids’ classes.
I love the immediacy and happy accidents that happen when drawing gesturally with ink. A lot of the warm against cool relationships of the drawing are mainly in the negative space surrounding the figure. For the background I applied brown, black and blue ink and let all the colors run into each other with wet into wet marks. After the wash drawing dried, I emphasized a few areas with white and blue chalk and black charcoal.
The end result is exciting and has inspired me to explore gestural drawings with ink wash more. Studies from the karate sketchbooks will be a great point of departure for more work like this.
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Adriana Burgos, Mixed media sketchbook study, 2016
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really cool!
your work just gets better and better!
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Thank you!
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This is really amazing, and all originating from watching your kid’s karate class.
A very fascinating technique you described Adriana! 🙂
~Carl~
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Thanks Carl!! Your comments are always encouraging.
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