Flower, Again – pigment ink drawing for aquarelle paper

I have those two things I seem  to repeat time after time in my drawings: messy ribbons and strings and these odd looking flowers. I don’t know what they are or what they are meant to be – I just like to draw them. Before colouring this image I just had to scan it; I propably will make several variations of it with Illustrator and Photoshop…

Ribbons, pigment ink drawing for aquarelle paper

Recently I found these old sketches for aquarelle paper. My original idea was to colour them with water colours, which I decided to now fulfill. But not this one – I sort of like it as it is.

Sketches for Plankko/Habitare

I’m taking part to Habitare 2011 in September with Plankko. We all make some small artworks to giveaway with some of our VIP clients. This is a very small (10×10 cm) archival pigment ink drawing to high-quality, heavyweight, acid and ligning free cellulose paper. I’ve made 10 of the same series, with ink drawing only, and then some more with also some water colour added.

Little Witch That Knits

My contribution to the Sketchbook Project 2011, still in process in this picture. The little sketchbook toured around US this summer, with nearly 10 000 other books, but is still waiting to be scanned.

Flowers, pigment ink drawing for aquarelle paper

Leaves, petals or something like that

Pigment ink drawing for aquarelle paper. I found this perfect, rough Cartiera Magnani Toscana Aquarello paper – which I found out to be actually quite good drawing paper, which most rough aquarelle papers are not… I decided to draw outlines with archival pigment ink and then colour the images with water colours. The colouring just was forgotten…

Wallpaper close-up