100 Artworks Challenge 11/100

This drawing is based on a photograph taken by my daughter, Alice, at Leeds Castle, Kent, U.K. during Easter weekend 2015.  The corridor is modern, plastered; my ‘Castle Walls’ are imaginary but I have essayed to render accurately the figure and the light.

The Hundred Artworks Challenge, 10/100

Door of old building at Vassilitsi, Messinias, Greece.  Drawn for a sketch made 'On Location' on 16th April.
I drew the left-hand doorpost far too dark and had to again resort to using Zinc White gouach paint to lighten its non-shadow areas.

The 100 Artworks Challenge, 9/100

Carrigdrohid Castle on the river Lee, Co. Cork, Ireland
Drawn  on Fabriano 200gm2 paper with a variety of nib widths of Pigma Micron pens, a Pentel Brush Pen and a wash over the entire sky with semi-opaque Zinc White Gouache paint.  Before the wash was applied the sky was far too dark to allow any contrast between it and the castle.  A conceit, I know, but it seems to have worked tolerably well.
Finished on 19th April 2015.

The 100 Artworks Challenge 8/100

Whitethorn Tree, Co. Clare, Ireland
Drawn on Fabriano 200gm2 paper with a variety of nib widths of Pigma Micron pens, a Pentel Brush Pen and some opaque Titanium White Gouache paint used to give extra emphasis to the blossom.
12th April 2015.

Right:
The rough sketch from which, together with a photograph,  the drawing above was worked.
9th April 2015.

The 100 Artworks Challenge 7/100

Fishing boat on the harbourside at Agios Andreas, Messinias, Greece
I worked this artwork up from a sketch made 'On Location' on 2nd April.

The 100 Artworks Challenge 6/100

Stump of 11th Century tower at Dysert O'Dea, Co. Clare, Ireland
Originally six metres wide and, before being ruined by British troops in the 1650s, thirty metres high.
Drawn  on Fabriano 200gm2 paper with a variety of nib widths of Pigma Micron pens and a Pentel Brush Pen.
1 April 2015

The 100 Artworks Challenge 5/100

Harriet playing Ophelia over a stream at Blean Woods, Canterbury, U.K.
Drawn  on Fabriano 200gm2 paper with a variety of nib widths of Pigma Micron pens, a Pentel Brush Pen and touches of Titanium white gouache paint.
27 March 2015