This view is from the old tennis court, looking up towards the house surrounded by shrubs and trees. Drawn with fine liners and coloured with Polychromos pencils.
The Garden House is near Yelverton, Devon, and its 10 acres of garden is open to the public.
I’ve started a large still life with acrylic on canvas, it consists a metronome, a bottle of pastis, an overturned glass over a blue draped cloth. Trouble is that, like with many projects I get sidetracked with other ideas. This time I wanted to try the picture in pen and use hatching, so I put aside the brushes and paints and got out the pens.
This is the result of the experiment. I didn’t know where the end product would go. I tried to match the hatching with each area in real life. I don’t think it’s too bad considering I usually use stippling for shade.
Things I would do differently include:
The shading on the dark side of the metronome. Next time I would hatch in a direction that would suggest the vertical.
Shading/brightness on the glass need better effect. Must work on that.
Background needs work.
Let me know what you think.
Kim - splash it! 