Drawing Prompt #13

The medium is INK.

This week let's break out the pen and ink again!

This can be markers, fineliners, nib/dip pens, ink wash, inktense pencils or even ballpoint pens. If you need to start your drawing with some light pencil outlines, no problem. 

If you need to review ink techniques Artyfactory has some good tips HERE.

The prompt is: RUIN

AGGGGH I hear you cry! Don't despair. Remember your last holiday in Rome? Draw a crumbling column or a fallen statue. Maybe an old church in Devon. Perhaps a tumbling woolshed from the Outback. Your work can be a section or part of a ruin, or go big time and create a landscape with a ruined tower on a hilltop or the like. Somewhere in your drawing should be a ruin of some sort - maybe it is even the ruin of a fire blasted gum tree? Or else the portrait of an old, old person. It could even be an imaginary castle with a dragon crouched in its ruin. This prompt is pretty wide open to interpretation. Have a bit of fun with it.

As a demonstration piece I did this sketch last week from a photo I took of the crumbling back corner of the Old Hay and Grain Studio in Mentone. This wonderful old building was the home for many years of the Mentone & Mordialloc Art Group until the local Council condemeded it in 2018 and decided that the space would be better used as a car park. Sigh... can't you just hear Joni Mitchel singing BYT?

'Old Hay & Grain Studio' by Linda Weil

Adel pens Sepia and Black washed, detail in Sepia and Black Staedler Mars fineliners. Escoda 300gsm Hot Press visual diary. 45 minutes.