The Purple Plaid • Calming Creations • Drawing Ambience

Welcome to my latest notebook session where I experiment with overlapping strips of watercolour paint and patterns in black and white pen ontop. I started with horizontal strips of every purple shade I have in my watercolour pencils collection. Once they had dried, I did the same vertically with brown watercolour paint. Together they create a nice warm toned pattern. Because the paint is translucent, I ended up with even more colours where they overlapped one another. Each page has a different approach, one with a precise, thick, black outline, and the other with loose organic lines. I worked on this spread over many months here and there. It was over such a long time that I started experimenting with different black and white pens along the way so the right pen is using the finer nibbed Tikky Rotring and Uniball Signo, and the left is using the slightly thicker nibbed Posca Markers. I finished off the last piece of the left page with a new pattern over the top of some scrap paper and I really liked how it turned out and plan to use it again at a larger scale. Links Shop: blairartwork.com Instagram: @blairillustration Materials Used Sketchbook: Moleskine A4 Watercolour Brush: Daler-Rowney Graduate 1" Pencils: Derwent Inktense in Dusky Purple, Mauve, Deep Violet, Thistle, Dark Purple and Deep Rose Pens: Rotring Isograph and Tikky in 0.4, Uniball Signo White and Posca Fine White and Black Markers Music Asi Mandel - My Rose Nocturne Samurai - Shani Yehezkel Raz - Ballerino Roy Dahan - Leaves Ran Raiten - Lullaby No 3 in E Minor Birraj - Waltz in A Minor B150 Op Posth Asi Mandel - My Rose Nocturne Samurai - Shani