Cheap Art Supplies

 I’m on a mission to finish up this sketchbook, so you’ll see a lot more art. This is one in the series of bad sketchbooks I’ve purchased over the years. Additionally I have bad watercolour box that I’ve been tagging along for ages (almost 16 years actually). I wonder if it is going to make my art bad. It is I think.  I can’t layer. I do single washes. The results are really short of amazing. But I do feel guilty keeping on buying new ones. Ha ha ha. Maybe I’ll make a concession and only every other painting will be using bad materials. 

Slow Mornings

 

It’s summer vacations! My son is allowed to sleep in late. 

Bad Ink

 It’s really weird how the last 24 hours have been my worst for inking. First I fully spilled the new ink bottle I had purchased yesterday. Then I spilled ink on the drawing I was making (my largest ink drawing at least). And finally I dropped my dip pen and broke its nib. 

Will have to do it all over again over the weekend. 

Tecomaria Capensis (Cape Honeysuckle)

 

Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)

 

Wallflower (Erysimum)

 

Verbena