Inktober 2021: days 13-18
All of my Inktober artwork can be found on the corresponding tag, which is viewable here.
Prompt 13 was ‘Roof’.
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[Image ID] Watercolour landscape and Crannog painting. The sky is pink yellow and orange. Low brownish hills are on the horizon. The lake is blue with yellow, green and brown reflected in it. In the foreground is the focal point of the picture which is a crannog and the walkway to it. A crannog is a timber-built roundhouse, found in Scotland and Ireland, which is supported on stilts driven into the bed of the loch. The crannog has a roof thatched with reeds. The orangey glow from the sun is shining round the left side of the building. The wattle walls are made from flexible hazel stems woven together and the whole things sits on a timber platform which is connected to the shore by a raised timber causeway [description end]
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This was one of a few prompts where I
remained unsure what to do until I actually sat down to paint. In the end I
opted for a sunrise landscape focusing on an iron-age crannog. I referenced a
photo (from Wikipedia) of a replica crannog, which has been built on Loch Tay
in Scotland, to get a sense of how the building was constructed.
Prompt 14 was ‘Tick’.
[Image ID] Watercolour painting of an open notebook on a vintage writing desk that has a clock inset into the back wooden rail. The top part of the picture is a subtle mix of pink and orange just to give the idea that a wall or something is there behind the desk rather than it just being blank. The rest of the picture is in brown sepia tones. The wooden rail at the back of the desk top is carved in a stepped and scalloped design. The central scallop is taller than the others and the clock is inset into it. The clock shows the time as 7 o’clock. In the centre of the top of the writing desk is an open spiral-bound notebook. There is writing on both pages but it is not decipherable. The left page is full but only the top half of the right page is written on. There are 3 tabs visible above the top of the right hand page of the notebook. [description end]
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A clock seemed like the obvious
response to the prompt, and I opted for one which had been installed into the
back of a vintage writing desk.
[Image ID] Watercolour painting of a helmeted person with moon and sky behind. The background is purple and blue tones for the sky with a large creamy, gold central moon. There are specks of white and gold scattered across the sky to give the idea of stars. The head and part of the shoulders of the helmeted individual are in the bottom left corner. The helmet is in the style of a sports crash helmet with a large visor down across the face so you can only see the merest hint of the shape of a head and nose etc. A broad pinkish purple stripe, with a narrow white stripe either side of it, goes back from the centre of the top of the visor and over the top of the helmet. The broad stripe matches the colour of the armour that is partially visible on the character’s left shoulder. The stripes and bit of armour stand out because everything else about the character is grey in colour. [description end]
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This was one of the more daunting
prompts, as there weren’t really any options but to paint a helmet! The figure
in the painting is based on Havoc from Thunderbirds Are Go. By basing the
figure on her, I had a starting point for the design and shape of the helmet.
Havoc’s colour scheme also better complimented the painting than any other
character in the series.
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[Image ID] Watercolour painting of a map and 2 kinds of compass. The brown tones make the map look old and the idea of age is added to, by it being in a scroll format. The map goes diagonally across the page from bottom left towards the top right. The scrolled map is partially unfurled to show a large, central, irregularly shaped island and a much smaller island in the bottom right hand corner. Three mountain ranges are shown on the large island along with several rivers. A couple of mountains are indicated on what can be seen of the smaller island. A simple grey, directional compass on a chain is lying on top of the map in the top right corner. Lying on top of the diagonally opposite corner is a grey pair of mathematical compasses. [description end]
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So I decided to paint an old
illustrated map with both a navigational compass, and a pair of mathematical compasses.
[Image ID] Watercolour painting of a meteor clearly on a collision course with the surface of a planet. The atmosphere the meteor is racing through is greyish purple. The meteor itself is a brown piece of rock surrounded by a fiery tail. It is heading diagonally from the top left corner towards the planet which goes in an undulating diagonal from bottom left to middle right. The planet is non-specific/imaginary and is brown. [description end]
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I decided to depict a meteorite hurtling towards the surface of a planet.
[Image ID] photo of the painting tilted to show the sparkle effects [description end]
[Image ID] Watercolour painting of the moon viewed through the window of a spacecraft. The window and wall of the craft are curved. The craft interior is grey. Beneath the window are various levers, dials, buttons and displays of different sizes and shapes. Some of them are illuminated green, orange and red. The moon is seen through the left hand side of the window and is not fully visible. The moon is a creamy gold colour. The sky behind it is purple, blue and yellow [description end]
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This prompt took a fair amount of thought, as I didn’t just want to paint a night sky landscape. Having played around with composition sketches, I eventually settled on a view of the moon seen through the window of a spaceship.
[Image ID] photo of the painting tilted to show the sparkle effects [description end]
I used uniball signo sparkle pens to add colour to the
controls of the ship, which gives a lovely effect when the painting is tilted.