#middlesex fells

[linseedling]

Rough sketch of the cover for my Boston nature zine

[wordsandimagesbycynthiastaples]

as the sun set by the pond

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[vlkphoto]

Foggy WinterFells

Middlesex Fells, Stoneham, MA.

[ohh-c0mely]

As above, so below. Middlesex Fells, MA

[yvng-mel]

Medford, MA [August, 2020]

[eluneth]

We finally made it to the Middlesex Fells for the first time this weekend! Just stunning at golden hour, and we got to see two orioles, too. // 30-minute Tombow marker sketch.

At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious... I’m getting better by planning the drawing as if it were a watercolor painting (obviously they are both transparent media): work light to dark, plan the edges of the shapes, “cut in” interesting shapes with darks to add definition, etc.

It continues to feel weird to work with such light, high-saturation colors since normally muddying everything is my jam. (Which raises an interesting possibility: what if I used these on toned paper?) But it speaks to how well-designed the sampler sets are, that the colors play so nicely together even with (to me) some crazily saturated things in there, like the cyan for the sky.

Apparently the blender marker (which I forgot to pack this weekend, anyway) works if you use the markers on watercolor/mixed media paper, so I’ll have to remember that when I do the direct sketch pass through my new mixed-media journal (currently being used for collages).

[ariweinklephotography]

Upturn.

[thelovehaterunning]

running around the city