#bistre

[deeranger]

So, I fooled around with some "Bistre" pigment today for the second time ever and tried to paint Sammy somewhat unsuccesfully... 😅 I'm not exactly satisfied with it and I ended up retouching it a bit with brown colorpencils that match the pigment's color - because I couldn't add more Bistre without lifting previous layers. *Shakes fist* Anyway... Here is a slightly dodgy Sammy in the shade of morning coffee!

Nerdy info for the curious: Bistre is a pigment made from the soot of burned beech wood and it was used by artists during the Renaissance before the introduction of sanguine and sepia. It behaves somewhat like watercolors, but it's a bit more unforgiving (at least that's what I think).

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Summer

Anonymous, German, 18th century German Formerly attributed to Anonymous, Netherlandish, 17th century Netherlandish 18th century (?)

[inkstainedpalettes]

Joli rouge - The Dreadnoughts

[gradienty]

Bistre Blue (#3f2820 to #3f1cfe)

[creativeefforts]

Portrait studies, bister & ink

(Illustration class, year 1, 2018-19)

[pomnoichu]

Yoooooooo, it’s art I made for @museconfused waaaaay back in December! Our characters, going on adventures, tearing through fourth walls and talking about bois 

[azenzeph]

Drew @pomnoichu‘s OC - Bistre~

Also its, transparent :O

hoo boy this was fun to make owo hope you like it mang~

[anoukmaes]

2017 - It feels like I lost my mojo, so I’m painting some familiar stuff with bistre :)