Digital Drawing
winter hedgerow
Nigel Borrington December 2018
Digital Drawing
Tone Brushes, MyPaint with Wacom Pro M Tablet
Winter Hedgerow
Nigel Borrington December 2018
With Storm Dennis on its way to Ireland this weekend, Winter is still very much here, oh well time for me to stay inside and draw 🙂 🙂 or paint.
I am working on some still life work, a drawing of a sheep’s skull ……
February 14, 2020 | Categories: art, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper | Tags: Digital art work, drawing, Ireland, irish art, Kilkenny, Nigel Borrington, Storm art, winter | 2 Comments
Berlin
from the river spree nigel borrington 2019
Selecting images for an drawing and painting portfolio
Over the next few weeks any images I post on my blog will relate to a selection process I am making for producing some art work. I want to go through my blog photos posted since 2011 and select images that could related to both pencil/ink and Charcoal drawings along with images the will make good subjects for Painting in Acrylic/oil paints. I also have many images that I never posted here, as when I get my camera into the landscape I try to almost exhaust the location as much as possible by taking many images.
With this image of Berlin from the river Spree, I felt it would make a great subject for Charcoal, Pencil and Pen and ink work.
This is a process I have wanted to do for sometime, as it will help me get focused on the art work I want to produce during 2019…..
January 28, 2019 | Categories: Acrylic on canvas, Acrylic painting, art, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper, pencil on paper | Tags: art work, Berlin, drawing, Germany, Images selection, Nigel Borrington, painting | Leave a comment
Digital Drawing
Tone Brushes, MyPaint with Wacom Pro M Tablet
Winter Hedgerow
Nigel Borrington December 2018
December 15, 2018 | Categories: Art and craft work, art work, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper, Sketch book work | Tags: art, December 2018, digital art, Digital Drawing - Winter in the Hedgerow, drawing, Hedgrow Art, mypaint, Nigel Borrington, Sketch book drawings, Tone brush set, wacom | 2 Comments
One hour sketch
Fisher man on the rocks
Ink on paper
county Galway
Nigel Borrington 2018
December 10, 2018 | Categories: art, art work, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper, Sketch book work | Tags: 1 hour drawing, County Galway, Digital drawing, Ink on paper, monday, Nigel Borrington, sketch book, The Fisherman | 2 Comments
Drawing from the Boglands
Digital Drawings
Nigel Borrington 2018
Back in June this year Ireland was in the middle of a 8 weeks drought and even the Boglands had become dry. At one of our nearest Bogs we had a large wild fire which I visited to get the below images. Since then I have been working on some drawings of this event. This is a great subject for ink on paper type drawing.
The above image is just one that I have completed so far …..
Bog fire Gallery
After the Wild fire
littleton bog, tipperary Nigel Borringtpon
September 27, 2018 | Categories: Art and craft work, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper, Sketch book work | Tags: drawing, Ireland, Irish Boglands, Nigel Borrington, Sketch book drawings, Wild fire | Leave a comment
Art of the hedgerow
Digital Drawings
Nigel Borrington 2018
September 27, 2018 | Categories: art, Art and craft work, Digital art work, drawings, Ink on paper, pencil on paper, Sketch book work | Tags: art, Art from the Hedgrow, drawing, hedgerow, Hedgerow Art, Ireland, Kilkenny, Nigel Borrington | Leave a comment
A view of Slievenamon
One hour sketch
Pencil and Ink on Paper
Nigel Borrington
Last week here the weather in Ireland took a wet and showery turn, its starting to feel very close to the Autumn now. As such it was a little harder to finish each of the outdoor sketches that I started, If I have to stop a drawing I intend to return to the same location the next time I have a chance. However the sketch above is one that I did manage to finish, even this one was interrupted for some 15mins while I put everything back into my waterproof pack and waited for the rain to stop.
The location of this sketch is on the hillside just south of Clonmel and the river Suir, with a great view of the woods and its trees, looking towards the mountain of Slievenamon above, about a 10 min walk from the car park.
In the last two weeks or so I have started adding in some graphics pens to my work, I am finding that using these pens helps me keep freely flowing and moving as I work, I will return to just pencils at some point but am really enjoying the look and feel of the lines that these pens are adding. With Pencil I feel I end up with more stopping and starting during working as I think about tone and depth. light and dark, while this is great just for the moment I want to think about form and shape alone.
I am happy with this finished drawing, looking at it I wonder if I have overworked it just a little but I think for the moment I am happy. These are sketches and not final works, I am very happy , more happy if something is to be found in them that I can learn from and progress with.
October 1, 2017 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, Ink on paper, Landscape, Nigel Borrington, pencil on paper, Personal skills and development, Sketch book work, Slievenamon | Tags: art, drawing, Drawing exercises, Ink on paper, Irish landscape sketces, One hour sketch, pencil on paper, Sketchbook, Slievenamon | Leave a comment
One hour Sketch
Path into the woods
Nigel Borrington
Over the last few weeks I have been doing my best to find time each day to get outside and draw, Today I stopped at a local public Gardens that has some amazing paths, winding their way between some old trees. Its a great location that I hope to draw many times over the winter months.
Today as an exercise, I gave myself one hour to complete a sketch, using pencil and an ink pen on paper, in order to capture as best as I am able a sense of the path as it gets deeper into the trees along side it, as it does so the light falls dramatically.
I enjoy very much these one hour exercises, working quickly as possible yet as best as I can, I feel it is helping to build my ability to see whats in front of me and then how to use basic drawing tools represent this view on paper.
September 22, 2017 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, drawings, Ink on paper, Landscape, pencil on paper, Personal skills and development, Sketch book work | Tags: art, drawing, Drawing exercises, drawing from life, ink drawing, Nigel Borrington, one hour drawing, Path into the woods, pen and ink, Pencil drawing, Sketch book drawing | 10 Comments
Nigel Borrington 
One hour sketch, views of Slievenamon county Tipperary
A view of Slievenamon
One hour sketch
Pencil and Ink on Paper
Nigel Borrington
Last week here the weather in Ireland took a wet and showery turn, its starting to feel very close to the Autumn now. As such it was a little harder to finish each of the outdoor sketches that I started, If I have to stop a drawing I intend to return to the same location the next time I have a chance. However the sketch above is one that I did manage to finish, even this one was interrupted for some 15mins while I put everything back into my waterproof pack and waited for the rain to stop.
The location of this sketch is on the hillside just south of Clonmel and the river Suir, with a great view of the woods and its trees, looking towards the mountain of Slievenamon above, about a 10 min walk from the car park.
In the last two weeks or so I have started adding in some graphics pens to my work, I am finding that using these pens helps me keep freely flowing and moving as I work, I will return to just pencils at some point but am really enjoying the look and feel of the lines that these pens are adding. With Pencil I feel I end up with more stopping and starting during working as I think about tone and depth. light and dark, while this is great just for the moment I want to think about form and shape alone.
I am happy with this finished drawing, looking at it I wonder if I have overworked it just a little but I think for the moment I am happy. These are sketches and not final works, I am very happy , more happy if something is to be found in them that I can learn from and progress with.
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October 1, 2017 | Categories: Art and craft work, Comment, Ink on paper, Landscape, Nigel Borrington, pencil on paper, Personal skills and development, Sketch book work, Slievenamon | Tags: art, drawing, Drawing exercises, Ink on paper, Irish landscape sketces, One hour sketch, pencil on paper, Sketchbook, Slievenamon | Leave a comment