Painted on Arches torchon (rough) 300 gram paper with Cotman watercolours. After it was painted I stroke the edges with a nib pen and manuscript drawing ink. I’d love to experiment with putting the ink in first but I’m having a hard time finding waterproof ink.
I took a lot of “creative freedom” in this painting of a statue in the garden of the Villa Borghese. In Rome all trees are evergreens but I wanted to experiment with fall colors so… I did. You can see the true colors in this photo.
For the staue itself I haven’t decided yet if I’ll color the it or leave just the ink outlines.
I love the rounded corners, the covers and the yellow tint of the moleskine but I have to say for ink work it’s not that good.
The pages are very thin and the ink bleeds to the other side. That means you have to use every other page and put a sheet of white paper between the pages when you scan.
The watercolor moleskine is nice but a tad small (there may be another size, I don’t know). The one I love most is the Japanese album… that one is just too cool.
There’s something fascinating about a very old olive tree. The way the trunk separates and intertwines, the big holes and chunky roots. I first sow this in on my vacation in Corfu where you can find trees up to 400 years old. Because it’s a fast growing tree almost everywhere else in Greece the trees are not let to live that long, they’re replanted every decade or so to make it easier to pick the olives.
The pinkish hue is actually yellowish from the moleskine. The firs time i used ink on this… and probably the last.