Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Friday, 17 August 2012

Pen or Pencil


Pen and watercolour



2B pencil and watercolour

Two tries at the same subject - lilies growing at the moment in the garden. 

I said I'd practise sketching with a pen but I don't find it easy. I can't quite work out why I find it so uncomfortable - it just seems to lack the softness of a pencil. I enjoy the way a pencil mark varies in tone depending on the pressure you apply as compared to a pen which seems to lack that variation. 

Then, of course, you can't rub out a pen line !!