So I was out last Friday with my old friend Simian Ongarian. We decided to have a boat/punt trip up the river
We were crossing one of the backs when I decided we'd "drop anchor" for a bit and I could do some drawing. I did an initial sketch below using pencil on paper. The punt was fixed to the shore via an iron chain - so the boat was a bit wobbly, but I managed to refine the drawing in several stages. I used a very hard pencil initially to get a very weak line. The pencil's I used were Derwent pencils on a Cotman sketch pad.
We then had the picnic finished off some wine and cheese - and then and I went home and had a sleep. After waking up in the afternoon I went over the initial sketch with a felt tip pen to get the major forms.
I then decided to block in the rest to get an idea of how I would begin to paint. I carefully sketched the boat and houses as the main view and had the trees in the background on both sides to frame the picture. This was all done using a felt tip pen using broad strokes so I could get my arm moving. Basically I was preparing myself for the actual job of painting which would probably start in a couple of days - depending on how I felt about the composition.
The next post is here.
Leave a comment