Every so often I do a demonstration at an art group. I was asked to do pen and ink washes and layering. I used to do this technique a lot a few years ago – it is soooo messy I haven’t done any for a while .
I decided to do some passion fruit flowers- it’s the wrong season, but I always liked the shapes. I used photos and images from the internet as my source material. (https://www.pinterest.com/LindeeGEmb/ & https://www.tumblr.com/search/akuacreative)
My first doodle attempts felt a bit clunky. I dreamt of big 3D close ups of the centres by kept putting it off. When I am nervous about something I tend to resist getting started until the last moment ,then I have fun and go a bit mad
I wanted to play with different types of lines so I used pencils,a dip pen and my usual the liners – water proof and soluble
The dip pen was very messy and I kept smudging the ink ….. I filled larger areas of ink with a brush
I like wax resist because it adds texture. I added layers of diluted black ink and straight from the bottle.
The green and pink/ purple are wax crayons.
I was begining to feel braver so the fuschia pink came out, I also added details in pen and more layers of wax to get stronger contrasting colours
The above pic was an experiment – not sure if I like it – but it was fun playing – it needs to be larger really – the drawings are on A5 sample papers or A4 water colour 
As prep for my class I did some more pen drawings
And couldn’t resist starting one as a doodle
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