May: Colours Of Nature - 2018 Monthly Ink Combo Project

[lgsoltek]

It's May. Flowers, grass, leaves, sea, mountain, sky, desert, snow, sunset... Choose a combo of 2+ inks to show us any part of the nature you like. Have fun!

Click here to read more about the 2018 project.

[Noihvo]

 

 

 

[Newjelan]

Great job Noihvo I love the colour combination and Diamine Kelly Green looks stunning,

 

Here's mine:

 

 

[namrehsnoom]

This time I got my inspiration during a walk in the park, where swans & ducks are showing off their little ones. The scene below reflects this lovely moment of nature, but the inks were chosen because I like their soft tones, which reflect the softness of the scene. The inks are kyo-iro Soft Snow of Ohara and Stone Road of Gion. They are the only ones I own, but I like them a lot, and plan to lay my paws on the other ones from this inkmaker.

 

[HalloweenHJB]

Very interesting choices, namrehsnoom. Not the usual options for Spring in the northern hemisphere, but your delightful scene does have a softness to it.

 

You made me rethink my combination...

[HalloweenHJB]

I went with the traditional combinations, after all. There is a row of linden trees down our street here in Indianapolis, and from my window, I can see the fresh leaves —our Spring was very late this year.

 

The paper is Koh-i-Noor "Paper for Pens". Very smooth, but some usually well-behaved inks have a tendency to feather on it.

 

[EBGBs]

 

It had to be something else than flowers; I already did flowers twice this year!! This thing was looking better in my mind than it does on paper... Oh well I guess this is what imagination is for.

Lots of inks; some of them I submitted in earlier combos (sorry)

The paper is a drawing/sketching paper - that seems very absorbent and prone to feathering. Not great but it didn't affect the result too much.

[lgsoltek]

I picked three inks for flowers and grass:

 

 

The "drawing" is of course, not botanically accurate...

[LizEF]

I picked three inks for flowers and grass:

 

 

The "drawing" is of course, not botanically accurate...

 

Thanks, LG! Waka Uguisu sample added to my wishlist!

[Tweety06]

 

It had to be something else than flowers; I already did flowers twice this year!! This thing was looking better in my mind than it does on paper... Oh well I guess this is what imagination is for.

Lots of inks; some of them I submitted in earlier combos (sorry)

The paper is a drawing/sketching paper - that seems very absorbent and prone to feathering. Not great but it didn't affect the result too much.

 

This is beautiful!!

[Chrissy]

I also found this months brief quite a difficult one, especially because everyone else is a better artist than I am.

 

So I went out into my garden and picked the best flowering shrub that I currently have in flower for May. Pieris:

 

[migo984]

Colours of Nature

 

Sunset over the marina, using Oster inks, washed with a Pentel Aquash brush. Colours are Cherry Blossom, Viola, Purple Rock, Aussie Gold and Orange Zest.

Sketched lines are Platinum Carbon Black.

 

 

 

[namrehsnoom]

Colours of Nature

 

Sunset over the marina, using Oster inks, washed with a Pentel Aquash brush. Colours are Cherry Blossom, Viola, Purple Rock, Aussie Gold and Orange Zest.

Sketched lines are Platinum Carbon Black.

 

That’s beautiful! I love the combination of colours.

[migo984]

That’s beautiful! I love the combination of colours.

Thank you :-)

 

Believe it or not, in reality the actual colours of the sunset were much more vivid than the inks I used. But if I’d tried to sketch the colours true-to-life it would have looked ridiculously fake!

[lgsoltek]

I also found this months brief quite a difficult one, especially because everyone else is a better artist than I am.

 

So I went out into my garden and picked the best flowering shrub that I currently have in flower for May. Pieris:

 

 

I think I've seen this plant before, but I didn't know what it was called. A great choice of colours! Meadow is one of my favourite greens.

[lgsoltek]

Colours of Nature

 

Sunset over the marina, using Oster inks, washed with a Pentel Aquash brush. Colours are Cherry Blossom, Viola, Purple Rock, Aussie Gold and Orange Zest.

Sketched lines are Platinum Carbon Black.

 

 

 

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That is stunning!

[Stompie]

[Noihvo]

 

[Stompie]

Sorry, Woodland Green

Satin Lilac

Cayenne

Rome burning

Sunshine Yellow

A blue mix and the Lilac again.

All written with an Italic dip nib

Poem is my own.

[crahptacular]

I'm surprised that May's theme seems less popular than the others so far. I had trouble picking inks because there were so many to choose from.