Bougainvillea

Here’s my latest ink and collage drawing. It’s from the bougainvillea plant, with collage from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

It was schmincke watercolour washes, dip pen & Art Spectrum black ink. This week I’ve picked up a bottle of walnut ink (Daniel Smith) for my next drawing, the brown tones are always my favourite for backgrounds but I thought I’d give this deep dark hue a go as the main star. I’m not sure if it’s the same as sepia, but I’m planning a day of experimenting to find out. Even the name Walnut Ink sounds appealing to a botanical lover!

Here is some of the process of making this piece, it measures 297mm x 297mm. It was originally rectangular but I’m really liking square canvas at the moment.

I’ve put it into my shop, link is on my shop page.