Catherine’s 100 Day Art challenge – Ink leaves

[Catherine Rademan]

I’m Catherine, committing to a 100 days of art is daunting, no jokes. However, in a moment of bravado… I am going to give it a jolly good go. Planning to sketch a leaf or flower a day.

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Debbie H]

Hi Catherine. These are really lovely 🙂. I was doing botanical drawing before I started with NMA. Are you beginning your drawings with pencil or going straight in with ink? 100 days is daunting, but I’ve just finished one and am back for a second – it’s helped me tremendously with drawing regularly and I’m confident you’ll find it helpful too. You’ll also find yourself at the end before you know it! I look forward to seeing more 🙂.

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

[Catherine Rademan]

Used a size 5 round brush, with Diamine chocolate brown ink, found this darling leaf walking this morning. Trying to translate tonal values was tricky for me today…

[Catherine Rademan]

Thank you Deborah, those are kind words indeed! thank you, hoping to take away confidence to let the pencil go – initial fine outline, then fountain pen on the detail. 100 days might have been ambitious, but aiming to draw while leaves are still on the plant, and not from photographs. Still early days in the journey.

[Catherine Rademan]

[erikdennes]

Interesting studies Catherine.  I’m glad you are taking on the challenge.  I think you will find that by doing it, you will improve a lot.  Since you are working a lot in line, you might want to think about how vary your line quality a bit more.  How can you use thick or thin lines to describe form?  How can you use thick or thin lines to be more expressive and give a sense of life?  How can you use thick or thin lines to describe light? Where can you break a line and make the mind fill in the gap?  If you haven’t already, you might want to check out Ilya Mirochnik’s lesson “An Introduction to Mark Making” in the Russian Drawing Course.  He’s got some great exercises for improving line quality.  Good Luck, you are off to a great start!

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