Showing posts with label Graphite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graphite. Show all posts

Monday, 1 April 2013

IF Egg




                                                                  Size: 15 x 16 cms
                                                                  Media: Graphite on paper
                                                                  Pens: Pencils

EDIT: I will quote myself from that little known web site, Facebook : "Before I drew this I found out that the Easter Bunny was actually a hermaphrodite hare and now I'm reading about acid trips and Jefferson airplane."


Monday, 7 January 2013

IF Edge





                                                                  Size: 22 x 15cms
                                                                  Media: Graphite on paper
                                                                  Pens: Pencils

They were all hardened pie scoffers.......it could have been any one of them...somebody had the edge.

Friday, 28 September 2012

Dream XIV (Book)




                                                              Size: 23 x 23 cms
                                                              Media: Graphite on paper
                                                              Pens: Pencils

 Gerard shouldn't read before he goes to bed. It'll make him dream.................... it'll cage his mind.

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Night Witch




                                                                 Size:  11 x 16 cms
                                                                 Media: graphite on paper
                                                                 Pens: Pencils

Why did I draw this?..... I don't know, maybe she made me draw her in the future. It makes you wonder.

Sunday, 2 September 2012

IF Identical




                                                               Size: 10 x 16 cms
                                                               Media: graphite on paper
                                                               Pens: various pencils

Sunday, 5 August 2012

Dream XII (Bounce)






                                                                Size: 20 x 18 cms
                                                                Media: Graphite &
                                                                crayon on paper
                                                                Pens: Pencils

Gerard's dreaming again. I think this dream may be interpreted as yearning for praise, maybe..what do you think?

Saturday, 28 July 2012

IF Lonely





                                                                 Size: 17 x 17 cms
                                                                 Media: Graphite on paper
                                                                 Pens: Pencils

Lets face it.......this was never going to be a happy post... " I suspect that you have noticed that making art can be lonely." Jenny Holzer

Sunday, 22 July 2012

IF Carry




                                                                 Size: 21 x 21 cms
                                                                 Media: Graphite &
                                                                 gouache on paper
                                                                 Pens: Pencils and
                                                                 Pentel waterbrush

Saturday, 14 July 2012

IF Lost




                                                                Size: 24 x 32 cms
                                                                Media: graphite on paper
                                                                Pens: mechanical pencils

This week I decided to start drawing various characters on a piece of paper. Each day that passed I worked a little more and added a couple of more. I challenged myself to finish the drawing and make it fit the Illustration Friday topic word...I decided this with only ten characters drawn. The topic this week is 'Lost'.

"......if man is living in fear, he will be a lost soul even in death." Unknown

Friday, 15 June 2012

Gerard's little secret



                 
                                                         Size: 28 x 21 cms
                                                         Media: Ink and graphite on paper
                                                         Pens: Dip Pen Gillott 404 & pencils

Saturday, 26 May 2012

Dream X (faded)



                                                             
                                                     
                                                             Title: Dream X (faded) (A)
                                                             Size: 22 x 15 cms
                                                             Media: Ink, graphite
                                                             & gouache on Canson paper
                                                             Pens: Gillott 290 dip pen




                                 

                                                             Title: Dream X (faded) (B)
                                                             Size: 22 x 15 cms
                                                             Media: Ink, graphite, gouache
                                                             coloured crayon on Canson paper
                                                             Pens: Gillott 404 / 170 dip pen




                   Credit to Richard Ewing for the venn diagram idea in Dream X (faded) (A), thanks.


Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Dream VI





                                                           Size: 25 x 15 cms
                                                           Media: Graphite on paper
                                                           Pens: Various pencils

Friday, 13 April 2012

IF Puzzled





                                                              Size: 13 x 18cms
                                                              Media: Graphite on paper
                                                              Pens: various pencils

                                           "Such evil deeds could religion prompt." Lucretius



Saturday, 10 March 2012

IF Yield



                                                                 Size: 14 x 17 cms
                                                                 Media: Graphite on paper
                                                                 Pens: Pencils



Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Barbara Hepworth

Monday, 5 March 2012

IF Intention

                                                             

                                                           Size: 9 x 15 cms
                                                           Media: Ink & Graphite on paper
                                                           Pens: Rotring Artpen & Pencil


It's never my intention to use other people's ideas, but after I drew this, I realised that having seen my blogging buddy Ted Blackman's fantastic cartoon this morning, his idea may have had an influence on mine...who knows how the mind works?

Monday, 15 August 2011

Wet Cowboys





                                            Size: 15 x 20 cms
                                            Media: Ink and watercolour on paper
                                            Pens: Hero 616 & Pentel waterbrush


                                     

                                       
                                           Size: 15 x 20 cms.
                                           Media: Ink,Graphite, watercolour on paper.
                                           Pens: Hero 616, Pentel waterbrush



                                           
                                                Size: 12 x 16 cms.
                                                Media: Ink on paper
                                                Pens: Lamy Al Star, Hero 616 and Pentel waterbrush



Continuing with the cowboys from the last post, I wanted to make some experiments using non-waterproof Ink for a change to see how it looked with a controlled wash of watercolour or just water. I usually stick to waterproof inks which do not run with a wash and the results can be fairly predictable. This ink will run and offers a less defined line,which when washed, will spread and mix with other colours altering form and feel.
I enjoyed doing this and will try using it again in future posts.