January 11th, 2011

I can’t believe I did this one with the time and energy that I had left.

I had a late call time to set today, about 11:30, which means that my camera crew and I weren’t going to wrap until very late at night.  It was about 11pm when we called it and I wasn’t even home until midnight.

As I was driving home I thought about my experiments with the dip-pen.  I thought I could do another drawing for tonights creative thing but I wasn’t sure what to draw.  Then I thought about my watercolors and how they might work well with the dip-pen.  I pictured myself drawing with the pen first and then filling in the outline with watercolor.  Then, I sort of skirted the whole idea aside because of the time.  I didn’t think I’d be able to do it and get to bed on time.

I got home and perused the internet a bit.  I decided I could possibly have the time to do a landscape if I used broad washes of color.  I found a good reference image to work from from my Day 217 / Desert Sunset video.

I think it turned out pretty good.  I did the watercolor first and then filled in the silhouette with ink.

At the end of the process I had to decide, splatter or no splatter.  I decided to splatter and I think it worked out all right.