Some time ago I took part in a workshop where we were shown how to turn leaves and fruit of different types of trees into natural inks. First we took a walk through the outskirts of town and picked the material, then we produced the inks and tried them out on paper. Among others we used fruits of maple trees, mahony or elder berries.
I tried to catch the mystic of the mountainous Salzkammergut region by using only black artist brushpens and a bit of ink…
Whenever I travel, I take some drawing material with me. These drawings were inspired by the picturesque Greek island Chios which we travelled to last year…
I’m looking forward to sketching while travelling through Nepal this summer!
I want to take part in this year’s Hahnemühle drawing competition, whose topic is “Maritime”.
I’ve done some prints and drawings so far but I guess I will do some more for my competition entry…
These small drawings were done with black drawing ink and watercolours on gift tags:
The plants on my terrace are in full bloom right now. Time to do some pencil sketches of them.
I especially like the lavender…
These drawings of the natural world were made with a black fineliner pen, which is an unusual but effective tool to draw fine details.
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