Another fun commission for the holidays. I was asked to commemorate a house in sepia ink. The finished piece is about 18x24". I photographed it before it was framed - it looks much fancier now.
I haven't done a pen and ink piece on this scale for a long time - I forgot just how much I like doing it. Love the obsessive quality of the ink and the sense of danger. Someone asked me what do I do if I make a mistake on something like that - well, since it is ink, I would have to start all over!
All those wedding dresses (white dress drawn on white paper) gave me a good perspective on how to handle all the the white brick - too much detail and it doesn't look white anymore, too little and it just doesn't register. I end up basically drawing the shadows. It is more important how the different areas (light and dark) relate to each other to register the contrasts and scale.
This is a beautiful house in real life, I am happy with how it turned out on paper too.
(And oh, those shingles!)
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| (I fuzzed out the homeowners' names and address along the bottom sidewalk - that's not a real smudge.) |
That's beautiful, Jessica! I really had no idea you were so artistic when we were 8! LOL :) Congratulations on the empire you've built for yourself! :)
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