ABANDONED

 

Now that I have my collection of ink pens at hand, I began thinking of doing something a little more complex and settled on this scene. I did a watercolor of this abandoned house that I saw on Lantau Island in Hong Kong some time ago and was pleased with the result. For this one I kept the composition a little simpler and tried to use the light and shadow to greater effect. The black areas were brushed in using ink then I began cross-hatching for the lighter areas. Details were either drawn in or stippled with various dots and dashes and for this I used a 0.8 mm pen. Size of this one is 11 x 8 in (28 x 20 cm), ink on paper.

ALONG THE ALGARVE VII

 

This was another of a series of paintings I did during our trip to the Algarve a few years ago. Like most of those studies, I kept it small. This one was more as an experiment to see if I would be able to capture something of what I saw on a bright but slightly overcast day. The rock formations of the area especially had really captured my artists' eye. In this backlit scene, it was mostly the color of the water that first attracted me to paint. During my first attempt, the water had somewhat eluded me so I recently repainted the sea and with a few other touch-ups here and there, I was finally happy with it. Size is 5 x 7 in (13 x 18cm), oil on canvas board.