Old factories along the canal in pen and coloured pencil on brown wrapping paper
Frog Island Factories and Canal, Pitt pen and coloured pencil on brown wrapping paper, Vivien Blackburn (crop 1)I wanted to have another play with that brown wrapping paper sketchbook, so I worked from an old sketch that I'd done plein air.
I'd decided to limit the colours to browns - using the lovely Lyra skintones selection, along with a brown Pitt pen. At the last minute I decided to add a little icy blue in the sky, canal and reflecting slightly on the corrugated roofs - the coldness works well against the warmer colours I feel.
This is an area that is full of higgledy piggledy old factories and little overgrown branches off the canal to their old wharves - one is off under that cast iron bridge. Sadly it's ripe for development and further along there are new flats in place of the old mills. I don't suppose this quirky building has a long future.
I'd decided to limit the colours to browns - using the lovely Lyra skintones selection, along with a brown Pitt pen. At the last minute I decided to add a little icy blue in the sky, canal and reflecting slightly on the corrugated roofs - the coldness works well against the warmer colours I feel.
This is an area that is full of higgledy piggledy old factories and little overgrown branches off the canal to their old wharves - one is off under that cast iron bridge. Sadly it's ripe for development and further along there are new flats in place of the old mills. I don't suppose this quirky building has a long future.
Frog Island Factories and Canal, Vivien Blackburn (crop 2)which crop works best do you think?
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I have a similar sketchbook Earthbound by Daler-Rowney and love drawing on the brown paper.
I like the first image best, it seems to draw me in more.
I'm tending to like the first crop as well as it places more emphasis on the buildings
I actually prefer the second crop. I like the sense of space in the foreground, giving it more depth. Feels a little less cluttered, not that the first one is particularly busy, but I'm sure you'll know what I mean!
Dinah thanks :>)
I like the second crop the best for much the same reason as Julie. In the second crop, I feel like going down the road approaching the scene. There's a little more space and curve in the road to draw me in. The first crop feel a little more crowded to me.
well opinion is equally divided on the crop at the moment! neck and neck :>)
It's such a shame that these wonderful old buildings are being taken down. I can empathize with wanting to modernize, but still, not everything old is tumbledown. With enough time and bottomless pots of cash . . .