Pen and Ink

Hi all,
I haven't been doing a lot of painting recently, mostly because I'm finding it difficult to find any decent blocks of free time. Sure I could get the brushes out and knock something up quickly but that would be a waste of time seeing as I'm trying to improve my results.

However, I have been dabbling with the pen and ink when I've had a spare moment. Pen and ink is an easier discipline than watercolour painting because it is mostly repetitive marks. This means that you can pick it up and put it down at any time, which suits me at the moment.

Alfred Wainwright was good with the pen and ink, so I have been using some of the marks he made to depict boulders and stones.

Anyway, here is a drawing that I've just finished of Conniston Water. I drew it from a photograph that I took whilst on holiday there about 15 years ago.

I'm quite pleased with the results, but it does lack a bit of colour.

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