Pen and Ink Drawings of Heads and Faces

  Inspired by Leonardo

 

 

 

 Even though I really, really Love sewing,  quilting,  jewelry making, house building,  dog tending, homestead planning and all else...

... it feels very nice to just sit at my desk every now and then and just play with ink and paper...

... and then I read this  quote by Walt Stanchfield,

“We all have 10,000 bad drawings in us. The sooner we get them out the better.”

Funny..   well for better or for worse, I had fun doing them.

Crosshatching and line drawings in my sketchbook, a few hands and feet thrown in for good measure, crow quill dip pen, India Ink, and Acrylic Artist Ink.

by Gwen Buchanan at Desideratum Art and Jewelry Studio, New Brunswick, Canada

A Few Quick Studies of Eyes

The better to see you...........

Interesting how you start with one idea and others move in and take over.

...just like the rest of life.
 I guess it's all relative.

...inspiration from many sources, including Leonardo da Vinci, 

using sanguine conte, pen and ink, wash, hatching in my sketchbook.

Still looking at snow and working on jewelry... making headway on the jewelry, none on the snow.

Desideratum Art and Jewelry, St. Martins, NB, Canada

Bremner

Sometimes an image makes you stop...... an emotional response...... you relate.... somewhere inside....
......was there a place in time when you felt this....

This is how I responded when I saw the photograph of this young man...

It made me want to express what I felt he was expressing to the world...... so I got out my brush


approx. 4" x 6" pen, ink, washes on 140 lb. arches cold pressed watercolor paper

My Interpretation of a Self-Portrait by Egon Schiele

There is something that really haunts me about the work of Egon Schiele. (Naughty stuff aside) Mostly the strong sure lines. Then the way he used color..... then the way he combined subtle and delicate to create Bold.... the importance of the eyes and hands..... The expressiveness he portrayed in each painting revealed a part of his inner spirit......





He died too young......






This is "my interpretation" of a self portrait he did. I used pencil, gouache, acrylic washes and india ink.......... He keeps us company in the living room.

approx. 15" x 18"