David Atkins - Artist / Ink Experiments

Specialising in Painting and Printing, David, a UK artis from Dorset has exhibited all over the country. Inspired by his immediate surroundings  and travelling he has produced many works of street, city and landscapes.

After seeing how he used ink and paint, I decided to try and have a go at working in this kind of style. Its a very different style, and maybe a little 'off task' but thought it might get me to avoid blending so much and focus on shapes  and dark and light tones.

Using printing Ink, A3 paper, a pencil and a large desk, I firstly tried a quick sketch, allowing myself only 10 minutes. My thought behind this was to try to get a busy, erratic look to the piece. By giving myself a time limit I thought that I would work more instinctively and quickly.

I think that maybe spending 15-20mins would have been better as I think the piece is missing some detail an is a bit bland in certain areas.

David Atkins - 42nd St. NYC

 Above and right, I spent longer on this piece and tried to include more into the foreground objects and a more faded distant look to the background. This was my more successful attempts.

Above right you can see the marks that I made on the reverse of the page to press the ink onto the paper. It was mainly a collection of long and short lines in a variety of directions and frequencies. I think that I made a good attempt at tone with this technique.

Right, a zoomed in snap of the pencil marks made on the above image.

Parisien landscape in Ink

Drawn from some photo's that I took in france, I wanted to do my own version in the DA style. Quite an ambitious task on reflection trying to add a little too much into it. I think if i'd stripped in back and just focused on the main objects more. Although I did leave out and change the scene a fair bit. 

I was fairly happy with most of the achieved tones, although more highlight required I think.

David Atkins - NYC Morning Monoprnt

David uses very confident lines, broad/ vague details with patches of very fine intricate bits. A good blend on simple and complex art well balanced that works well.

I find these very interesting to look at, and wonder in the same or similar feel/ look could be achieved using other media??