ink bottle dropper drawings

...so there I was at my job in the art supply store, feeling creative and having at my side a co-worker not only willing to let me do some portraits of her, but also she is very beautiful - at 3 months pregnant having a lovely glow - and so I got some really nice little drawings!

just blue ink on the matboard, 13x21"

first some washes on matboard, then drawing on top, 14 x 18"

Those were done very fast, using acrylic ink which comes in bottles with dropper caps. I was using the dropper end to draw with instead of brush or pen. Very awkward to control the line that way, but I love the result!

Then did some self-portraits on random pieces of 1/8" plexiglass at the studio:

first painted the back of the plexi red, then drew on the front with black ink.

nice shadow of the drawing


with this one I painted the back blue, scratched the image on the non-painted side, then rubbed black ink into it.

placed just so under the overhead lights