Field Arts Workshop: Elegant Ink for Field Notebooks

Join me for a celebration of the art of elegant ink in our sketchbooks. While I do love color in my journal, I also love the beauty of well-wrought pen sketches.

We’ll cover types of pens and inks (from ballpoint to fountain pens, including the pluses and minuses of the types); practice mark-making and values; and work on a couple of different types of sketches using one image to create each, so we can see how different styles of linework each produce a different “feel” on your pages.

Length: 2 hours

Images at right: Creating various “palettes” for your marks is a great exercise and very useful to keep tucked in a pocket of your journal for reference. The different types of stroke, texture, and tone are like words in a language or paint colors in a palette: you choose each for a different effect, feel, tone, or emphasis.

Resources from the Workshop

CHAT transcript — click > HERE <

Click image BELOW to initiate download for the workshop PDF with all the information, sample images, and links. Or, use: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rvlzr0a9hezdgjr/AACw6pH9jwhj6sQ-rvmM_GGwa?dl=0

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Larger image of the sample landscape we used for the demo (by Dylan Sauerwein / Unsplash.com)

Bonus! I did a short video (no sound) of how to clean and refill a fountain pen:

DEMOS FROM THE WORKSHOP

Roseann's sample Value Sketch and Focal Point Sketch

Roseann's sample "True Out-line" and "Broken Line" sketches

More Out-line and Broken-Line sketches plus a negative outline

Roseann's "Stylized" sketch

Roseann's second "Value Sketch"

Stephanie C.

Margaret L.

Margaret L.

Renata P.

Jen