Friday, August 30, 2013

Cafe Venezia (in progress)

© Chromeheart Illustration
I posted the line drawing and photo composite for this piece about a month ago.  (and that, toward the top of the picture, is a 20 year old Batman mug with much sentimental value.)  Here it is again with the main value structure established in J. Herbin Eclat de Saphir.  Although Elcat de Saphir has a reputation as the "favorite" blue ink of fountain pen lovers, it's actually more violet than blue when it's thinned out as I have done in this ink painting.  Next, I'm going to use a contrasting ink, perhaps Diamine Ancient Copper, to deepen some of the shadow areas.

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