I found some beautiful grays…some more bluish, others more yellowish and greenish and some just simply…gray.
…grays..
watercolor and J Herbin inks on Hahnemuhle paper CP 15,5x25cm
Doing the above sketch was very quick and dare I say easy, without sounding obnoxious? I’ll tell and you can decide…
- With a goose quill and nib and “gris nuage” ink from J Herbin, I drew the outline of the twig/branch with contour lines.
- I added a wet was over the areas that I wanted to highlight as the greyish moss, in the process flooding some the water soluble ink lines.
- I dabbed in some light dabs of indigo, prussian blue, paynes gray, ochre and raw umber on the wet areas. To finish off the background, I dropped some paint , using the same colours, from a loaded brush to loosely suggest random patches of moss.
- Lastly I finished off with some dark paynes gray(little water, lots of pigment, to give very dark values, suggesting the small dark corners between the moss.
..J Herbin inks and goose quill…
Africantapestry 
Even your artist materials are beautiful..
Lovely~
Very nice use of colors.
I love the sketch and was very interested in the paper and inks that you used here Ronelle!
Thankyou for the information on how you produced this really beautiful sketch. I want a goose quill pen !!!!!!
Love your technique & the lovely tones of greys. I hope one day I might be able to do something like it. I’m only a beginner ….
Lovely…lovelier…loveliest…. It reminds me of sumi-e, Ronell. Thank you so much for telling us about how you did it.
annie
These recent ones of the leaves and branches are really lovely. I like the touches of ink and color. Looks like you are enjoying autumn over there!!!
I love the addition of ink in this sketch – wonderful idea!
So pretty. Thanks for the information on the inks.
thank you everybody…I appreciate your kind comments!
ronelle