I painted some new pieces earlier this year with calligraphy inks, adding details with mixed drawing tools such as coloured pencils and gel pens.
With personal paintings I often like to work on multiple pieces at a time: I feel this boosts my creativity and gives me freedom to try new approaches and take more risks. I also enjoy that this usually results in a series of works that are different but still appear more or less related to each other.
Whenever one piece needs to dry or of I feel stuck with overthinking the next step, it’s easy to just move on and work on one of the other pieces. I find that ideas and solutions pop up on their own, if I just give them a little time and focus on something else for a while.
With the last two paintings I wanted to try a pastel coloured border as part of the artwork itself. I painted the borders with acrylic paints for a bit of contrasting texture.
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