This acrylic ink artwork was developed from a sketch made at Royal Horticultural Society – Hyde Hall Garden, Essex. I intended to start drawing in the vegetable garden but had to stop for these Rose hips.
Month: August 2013
RHS Hyde Hall, Essex, UK – Rose hip sketch with ink colour test
I visited RHS Hyde Hall Garden, Creephedge Lane, Rettendon, Essex last week with my sketchbook. This extract is a pen sketch of rose hips with an acrylic ink test strip. The test paper is used to work out the colours I want ready for use when I start on another artwork. There are always adjustments to the ink mixes as I proceed but to have approximate colours means I can work more fluidly.
RHS Hyde Hall Garden is one of my regular haunts, even in winter, but one of my favourite times is now, when plants and trees are fruiting or seeding with the late blast of summer flowers. But if visiting in June for the roses you have to remember to breathe out as all you want to do is take in all the different rose scents.
http://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/hyde-hall
Cocklespit beach shingle, two plants and two shells
This is a poppy that grows in the shingle at Cocklespit beach.
Artwork developed from sketchbook plant studies – reworked using acrylic and indian ink on watercolour paper.
Cocklespit beach shingle – two plants with blue shell
This artwork, using acrylic and indian ink, has been developed from sketches made at Cocklespit beach. There is a mass of shells, whole and crushed that remain above the tide line – amongst these grow some larger shrubby plants but most are small.
Maldon Art Trail 2013 – my allocated venue.
Yesterday I met the lovely people of the Maldon Cookshop who are donating a window and wall space, (cleared totally of products, very generous), for display of my ink artwork for the Maldon Art Trail 2013, 28th September – 6th October.
Visit http://www.maldonarttrail.co.uk/
http://www.maldoncookshop.co.uk
Cocklespit beach, shingle and saltmarsh plants
This is a detail of thumbnail sketches when I reworked my visual references for composition and colour tryouts. If you look at an earlier image posted, you may possibly recognise one of the plants sketched at Cocklespit beach.
I regularly use the technique of ‘thumbnails’, as they are small, (for me approximately 5.0cm x 6-8.0cm), and take very little time. This helps me to generate and make visual, a number of ideas on the same page ready for reworking, in this instance, with acrylic and indian ink.
Blue Cockerel with pigeons, Trafalgar Square, London
Sculpture “Cock” by Katharina Fritsch, in Trafalgar Square, London. This is the most recent artwork chosen for the empty fourth plinth.
(PS the pigeons just happened to be there sharing the same space).
jenny hill artwork and words 