Tonight’s artwork, framed in white: Cormorant fishing. Somewhere in China. Near a blossom-laden old tree. There are hills rising from the mist, and a temple sits at the top of a hill, under a big red sun.
Black, grey, pink and red brushpens, water brush, on watercolour Montval Canson paper. 10×15 cm (4×6 in.)
I didn’t spend a lot of time on each drawing and selected only subjects I really wanted to draw.
All done on my small sketchbook Canson art book universal (format 14×21 cm), using a Pentel black brushpen, a Kuretake fudegokochi black pen, a Kuretake light grey Brush Writer in many cases, and in the cases of the last two, that same pen in Geranium Red.
Last year I did six series of 5 drawings on a given theme or technique and I really liked it, but this year I compiled a list of prompts, and chose any medium or technique I liked:
Dragon
Robot
Fur
Cherub
Carnival
Prey
Pyramid
Crane
Diving
Pounce
Buccaneer
Altitude
Shipwreck
Zebra
Drums
Cougar
Boat
Planet
Sullen
Jellyfish
Monkey
Angel
Vanquish
Depth
Villain
Lipstick
Cliff
Pure
Elf
Tower
All my drawings in one place
Conclusion
I loved it! I discovered in the process that I don’t really like coloured pencils, but that I absolutely love gouache painting!
I think I have improved over the years. Notably, for “sullen” I redid a drawing of “Woman Sitting on Edge of Veranda” by Utamaro Kitagawa. Four years apart, and this time the lines were crisper and there was simply more details.
I am Coralie Mercier. I share thoughts and experiences, mostly in English, sometimes in French, and mostly about work related discoveries, drawings, musings and sometimes rants.