Developing into colour

I have worked mostly in black & white and in greyscale using graphite, black ink and water colour. However, I have now started to develop my work into colour. I have used the artists Mihaela Zovea and Jessica L. Harris as my inspiration. Mihaela work on vintage surfaces in ink such as old letters and Jessica on vintage sheet of music in biro and watercolour/ink. Both draw birds. I really like the idea of drawing a bird upon a sheet of music, it is as if your drawing is coming to life. Singing to you perhaps. In response to both of these artists I have created a small painting of a robin which visited my garden on an old sheet of Christmas music which I have tea stained before hand.

I have used drawing ink to create this piece. I have used lighter colours such as yellow for the base and then worked over this with primary colours such as red and blue. These combine to make secondary colours such as orange and green. This enables me to control the tone of the drawing. To add in further detail to the picture, I have worked into it using a black fine liner pen. This allows me to bring out details such as the delicate feet and claws and the sharpness of the beak and eye.