The Rose, work in progress, colour play ©Brett Breckon 2106
Here is a little picture I put together this week while I wait for my Christmas cards to come back from the printers.
I am quite keen to do more images without motorbikes for a while as I seem to have dedicated a lot of time to that subject of late. Anyway, I didn't feel like I had a lot of time to do anything elaborate, but I wanted to experiment a bit, so I turned to a thumbnail doodle I found on the corner of one of my pads of a woman with really big hair. I think the original thought when I scribbled it was that she could be one of my angels, and I almost went down that route with this, but instead decided to make the hair teething. Oh and the eyes :-)
The Rose, pencil sketch and ink work ©Brett Breckon 2016
Sods law states that I can't now find that original thumbnail sketch, so here is the interim work. I made a blue crayon sketch in a drawing book, then worked up on top of that with a soft lead in a fine propelling pencil how I thought the ink drawing should go......then without stopping to think about it too much I enlarged the drawing a bit and made my ink picture and scanned it in.
The Rose ©Brett Breckon 2016
It was gratifying for the finished art to appear fairly quickly (for me) on the screen. It gave me a chance to try some radical and quite psychedelic colour ways, some of which I have screenshotted (real word) for future reference, even though I did come back a bit to a more reserved colour-way in the finished piece. Hope you like it...prints will be available one day! :-)
2 Comments on The Rose, last added: 12/29/2016
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Interesting..I'm drawn to the lava red treatment, it gives a taste of 60s Strepsil to the back of my throat. A novel departure from Steel and Ally, leave the Hipsters to ponder on that stuff for a while. Best Wishes as usual xx
Ah, cheers MrMaguiz - yes I like the hot lava laden temptress too - sometimes so hard to decide on which version to settle on as 'The One'. Hope to see you soon - that Rudge will have patina on it's patina soon;-) X