Off to Valencia soon to deliver on a promise I made last summer, I have packed a small drawing kit (no slate or chalk) and this reminded me I had not posted any of the Peniscola drawings made in the summer of 23, so here they are some of them...
After working with Inktense on paper for some months or years (I honestly cannot remember) I have had a spell working on slate with chalk, same process, draw a depth pass, then draw a colour study and combine later, here are some examples...
A big part of the fun is erasing them after a quick iPhone photo...the images are twice the size of the previous series and exploit more 3D techniques
Here is a breakdown of the working process, B/W drawing, colour drawing, depth map, colour shader added to the depth plus virtual glass
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First drawings for April in the a series of landscape drawings made in the Chilterns and North Wessex Downs AONBs, mainly based around the river Thames. I make two drawings, a black and white depth map, and a colour version with less tonal information, the two are combined and rendered to give more depth and texture to the finished image. I am planning to keep a number of my favourite ones together as a changing group to see them as a set, search for jonathanspencer on saatchiart.com or click here https://www.saatchiart.com/jonathanspencer
My video work is an attempt to make animated paintings with audio, which fits within the cannon of abstraction. Hence the revisiting of a pa...
