"small ink tree" - blown by my breath

Sick of drawing? Looking for some inspiration? What about doing a new experiment. Blob a drop of ink on a sheet of paper and start to blow it across the paper till you like what you see. Try to change directions turning the paper or change the pressure and the angle from which you are blowing to add new branches.

Are we done here? Of course not! As you can see the picture below there`s a lot more possible than painting/ blowing simple trees. You can combine different techniques, like colorizing the picture by using india ink and many more.

This example shows a combination of these techniques. It`s painted in tempera and india ink and in the end I used this "blow me away"- technique to add a little bit visual grip.

I hope you like it. May be you`re the next one blowing away your ink jerry cans. So, get started!

It was at Dillons Bookstore in Manchester where my mum spotted a nice book. Waterdance by Howard Schatz. I immediately fell in love with this nice images of elegant human bodies. So, this is another example of my old drawings done in 1997 while I attended St. Helens College of art & design.

Impressed by a picture of the american photographer Edward Weston I drew this woman sitting on a swing under a big skeleton tree. The picture`s title is "idyll". 

I like to watch documentations and of course there`s plenty to draw. 

Well dressed business men...

...next to obedient soldiers and of course exhausted men.

Aren`t we sometimes like this little guy? Not really able to break out. Just imagine your shadow could show your temporary emotions.

This vietnamese guy had craggy features. I couldn`t resist to sketch him.

I absolutely don`t know what went through my mind when I did this india ink painting. I found it yesterday in my 1997 sketchbook. I´m just surprised like any other visitor of my blog.

Every time I see this drawing I try to estimate the age of this guy. He looks a bit like to be out of a fantasy movie.

just another dude

A mask or a human being, who knows if not the artist himself. 

india ink, tempera and ball-pen

It`s all about setting the right contrasts.

Portrait of Lucien Freud, a painter I like.

I usually use sketchbooks in A4 but when I go on a trip I take this small A6 sketchbook with me. It has a very bad quality and painting is hardly possible but I have allready almost ten of them and I keep on constantly filling them up. It happens to me when I thumb through this collection of pictures that I see a drawing and I can`t remember why I found it so important to draw it.